magento2: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function setActive

Preconditions

1. PHP 7.1.11
2. Nginx 1.13.8
3. MariaDB 10.2
4. Magento 2.2.2 CE

Steps to reproduce

1. Install magento 2.2.2 using the setup wizard
2. Run command bin/magento setup:di:compile
3. Go to Admin Address

Expected result

Show Admin login form

Actual result

PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Error: Call to a member function setActive() on boolean in vendor\magento\module-backend\Model\View\Result\Page.php:27
Stack trace:
#0 vendor\magento\module-backend\Controller\Adminhtml\Dashboard\Index.php(35): Magento\Backend\Model\View\Result\Page->setActiveMenu('Magento_Backend...')
#1 vendor\magento\framework\App\Action\Action.php(107): Magento\Backend\Controller\Adminhtml\Dashboard\Index->execute()
#2 vendor\magento\module-backend\App\AbstractAction.php(229): Magento\Framework\App\Action\Action->dispatch(Object(Magento\Framework\App\Request\Http))
#3 vendor\magento\framework\App\FrontController.php(55): Magento\Backend\App\AbstractAction->dispatch(Object(Magento\Framework\App\Request\Http))
#4 vendor\magento\framework\App\Http.php(135): Magento\Framework\App\FrontController->dispatch(Object(Magento\Framework\App\Request\Http))
#5 C:\WTServer\WWW\ma in vendor\magento\module-backend\Model\View\Result\Page.php on line 27

If I delete the file generated\metadata\global.php , login form is showing.