Today while deploying a custom solution on our development server using Visual Studio 2012, I received below error in Visual Studio:
"Error occurred in deployment step 'Retract Solution': Object reference not set to an instance of an object."
This was working well till day before and suddenly it started to throw same error again and again.
Then I went to retract same solution through Central Administration, and it shown me actual error that was happening.
The SharePoint_Config log file got full. After shrinking the log file, solution got deployed without any error.
