This is an issue that is simply driving me nuts. I have a one machine Storm instance running on my Local LAN. I am currently running v0.9.1-incubating
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We had that exact same problem (supervisor crashing on start and same log error message) when we had a power outage on 2 of our development servers. I guess just stopping the server without previously stopping the supervisor would have the same effect.
The only working solution we found was to remove the "storm-local/supervisor" folder (I guess something in there got corrupted).
I too faced this similar issue. I used to remove the local folder always and restart the topology.