DS-2201: Unable to complete installation of DSpace with non-empty variable "db.schema" configuration file "build.properties"

If the variable "db.schema" is not empty in the configuration file _ [dspace-source]/build.properties_, installation ends with this error:

[java] 2014-10-17 00:30:14,649 FATAL org.dspace.administer.RegistryLoader @ anonymous::error_loading_registries:
[java] java.lang.NullPointerException
[java] at org.dspace.storage.rdbms.ColumnInfo.canonicalize(ColumnInfo.java:154)
[java] at org.dspace.storage.rdbms.TableRow.canonicalizeAndCheck(TableRow.java:579)
[java] at org.dspace.storage.rdbms.TableRow.setColumn(TableRow.java:437)
[java] at org.dspace.storage.rdbms.DatabaseManager.doInsertGeneric(DatabaseManager.java:1834)
[java] at org.dspace.storage.rdbms.DatabaseManager.insert(DatabaseManager.java:675)
[java] at org.dspace.storage.rdbms.DatabaseManager.create(DatabaseManager.java:447)
[java] at org.dspace.content.BitstreamFormat.create(BitstreamFormat.java:403)
[java] at org.dspace.administer.RegistryLoader.loadFormat(RegistryLoader.java:172)
[java] at org.dspace.administer.RegistryLoader.loadBitstreamFormats(RegistryLoader.java:138)
[java] at org.dspace.administer.RegistryLoader.main(RegistryLoader.java:75)
[java] Error:
[java] - null

BUILD FAILED
/opt/dspace-src-42/dspace/target/dspace-4.2-build/build.xml:858: Java returned: 1