"java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Null base" in JBoss EAP log during startup

Issue

• The following error is logged during startup:

        ERROR [ScopedProfileServiceController] Error installing to Create: name=ProfileKey@50c283c[domain=default, server=default, name=farm] state=Configured mode=On Demand requiredState=Installed
        ...
        Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Null base
        ...

• We are seeing this warning in our log:

WARN  [org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.hotdeploy.HDScanner] (HDScanner) Scan failed
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Null base
        at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.clustered.sync.AbstractContentModificationGenerator.getModificationList(AbstractContentModificationGenerator.java:55)
        at org.jboss.profileservice.cluster.repository.DefaultRepositoryClusteringHandler.getLocalModifications(DefaultRepositoryClusteringHandler.java:554)
        at org.jboss.profileservice.cluster.repository.DefaultRepositoryClusteringHandler.synchronizeContent(DefaultRepositoryClusteringHandler.java:319)
        at org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.clustered.ClusteredDeploymentRepository.getModifiedDeployments(ClusteredDeploymentRepository.java:429)
        at org.jboss.system.server.profile.repository.AbstractProfile.getModifiedDeployments(AbstractProfile.java:128)
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