cbench does not work

When trying to run cbench, i see the following exceptions on the controller:

2014-03-05 20:37:16.445 PST [nioEventLoopGroup-11-5] WARN i.n.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline - An exceptionCaught() event was fired, and it reached at the tail of the pipeline. It usually means the last handler in the pipeline did not handle the exception.
java.lang.NullPointerException: null
at org.opendaylight.openflowplugin.openflow.md.core.sal.convertor.match.MatchConvertorImpl.fromOFMatchToSALMatch(MatchConvertorImpl.java:546) ~[na:na]
at org.opendaylight.openflowplugin.openflow.md.core.translator.PacketInTranslator.translate(PacketInTranslator.java:99) ~[na:na]
at org.opendaylight.openflowplugin.openflow.md.core.translator.PacketInTranslator.translate(PacketInTranslator.java:38) ~[na:na]
at org.opendaylight.openflowplugin.openflow.md.queue.QueueKeeperLightImpl.translate(QueueKeeperLightImpl.java:173) ~[na:na]
at org.opendaylight.openflowplugin.openflow.md.queue.QueueKeeperLightImpl.push(QueueKeeperLightImpl.java:112) ~[na:na]
at org.opendaylight.openflowplugin.openflow.md.queue.QueueKeeperLightImpl.push(QueueKeeperLightImpl.java:30) ~[na:na]
at org.opendaylight.openflowplugin.openflow.md.core.ConnectionConductorImpl.onPacketInMessage(ConnectionConductorImpl.java:202) ~[na:na]
at org.opendaylight.openflowjava.protocol.impl.connection.ConnectionAdapterImpl.consume(ConnectionAdapterImpl.java:280) ~[na:na]
at org.opendaylight.openflowjava.protocol.impl.core.DelegatingInboundHandler.channelRead(DelegatingInboundHandler.java:45) ~[na:na]
at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(DefaultChannelHandlerContext.java:337) [bundlefile:na]
at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelHandlerContext.fireChannelRead(DefaultChannelHandlerContext.java:323) [bundlefile:na]
at io.netty.handler.codec.MessageToMessageDecoder.channelRead(MessageToMessageDecoder.java:103) [bundlefile:na]
at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(DefaultChannelHandlerContext.java:337) [bundlefile:na]
at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelHandlerContext.fireChannelRead(DefaultChannelHandlerContext.java:323) [bundlefile:na]
at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.channelRead(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:173) [bundlefile:na]
at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(DefaultChannelHandlerContext.java:337) [bundlefile:na]
at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelHandlerContext.fireChannelRead(DefaultChannelHandlerContext.java:323) [bundlefile:na]
at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.channelRead(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:173) [bundlefile:na]
at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(DefaultChannelHandlerContext.java:337) [bundlefile:na]
at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelHandlerContext.fireChannelRead(DefaultChannelHandlerContext.java:323) [bundlefile:na]
at io.netty.handler.timeout.IdleStateHandler.channelRead(IdleStateHandler.java:253) [bundlefile:na]
at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(DefaultChannelHandlerContext.java:337) [bundlefile:na]
at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelHandlerContext.fireChannelRead(DefaultChannelHandlerContext.java:323) [bundlefile:na]
at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.fireChannelRead(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:785) [bundlefile:na]
at io.netty.channel.nio.AbstractNioByteChannel$NioByteUnsafe.read(AbstractNioByteChannel.java:100) [bundlefile:na]
at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.processSelectedKey(NioEventLoop.java:480) [bundlefile:na]
at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.processSelectedKeysOptimized(NioEventLoop.java:447) [bundlefile:na]
at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.run(NioEventLoop.java:341) [bundlefile:na]
at io.netty.util.concurrent.SingleThreadEventExecutor$2.run(SingleThreadEventExecutor.java:101) [bundlefile:na]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744) [na:1.7.0_51]

cbench is reporting 0 operations completed.