Create VF Module fails with progress stuck at 20% in the VID GUI.

2018-04-18T17:40:05.070Z|70fc8a33-b722-44c2-a5c8-9855f66be3d3|Thread-276|MSO.CVFMI||BPMN|MSO.CVFMI|ERROR|UnknownError|Caught exception in CreateVfModuleInfra.falloutHandlerPrep(execution=877a4045-432f-11e8-a469-0242ac120003, resultVar=CVFMI_FalloutHandlerRequest)
java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke method getErrorCode() on null object
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.NullObject.invokeMethod(NullObject.java:91)
...

Also an entry in BPMN error :

Caused by: org.mariadb.jdbc.internal.util.dao.QueryException: Unknown column 'STATE_' in 'field list'
Query is : insert into ACT_HI_VARINST (
ID_,
PROC_DEF_KEY_,
PROC_DEF_ID_,
PROC_INST_ID_,
EXECUTION_ID_,
ACT_INST_ID_,
TENANT_ID_,
CASE_DEF_KEY_,
CASE_DEF_ID_,
CASE_INST_ID_,
CASE_EXECUTION_ID_,
TASK_ID_,
NAME_,
REV_,
VAR_TYPE_,
BYTEARRAY_ID_,
DOUBLE_,
LONG_,
TEXT_,
TEXT2_,
STATE_
) values (
'876272c2-432f-11e8-a469-0242ac120003',
'CreateVfModuleInfra',
'CreateVfModuleInfra:2:a24077a1-4279-11e8-8638-0242ac120003',
'876272c1-432f-11e8-a469-0242ac120003',
'876272c1-432f-11e8-a469-0242ac120003',
'876272c1-432f-11e8-a469-0242ac120003',
<null>,
<null>,
<null>,
<null>,
<null>,
<null>,
'serviceType',
0,
'string',
<null>,
<null>,
<null>,
'vLB 2018-04-10 15:42:01',
<null>,
'CREATED'
)
at org.mariadb.jdbc.internal.protocol.AbstractQueryProtocol.getResult(AbstractQueryProtocol.java:1112)
at org.mariadb.jdbc.internal.protocol.AsyncMultiRead.call(AsyncMultiRead.java:84)
at org.mariadb.jdbc.internal.protocol.AsyncMultiRead.call(AsyncMultiRead.java:12)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)