On Friday, October 20, 2006 @ 1:34 PM, I wrote:
On Thursday, October 19, 2006 @ 9:15 AM, Don Raboud wrote:
On Tuesday, October 17, 2006 @ 9:19 PM, I wrote:
I've started getting the following error every time I log on.
System NullReferenceException. Object reference not set to an instance of an object in <0x003d6> Novell Zenworks ...
I remember someone posting a solution to this that involved just deleting one or more files. It sounded very simple. But since I had never had any problems with zen (unusual, I know), I didn't pay a lot of attention to it at the time. Now, out of the clear blue, it's bitten me. Can someone tell me how to get rid of this. I'm hoping there's a simple solution. I've tried looking through the archives but there are so many zen related posts that I can't find one with that simple solution I saw.
Thanks, Greg Wallace
Ok, so I guess no one currently reading the list remembers the quick way to fix this zen problem. That being the case, I'll take any solution that anybody has for it (or point me to an entry in the archives). Getting
On Wednesday 18 October 2006 18:02, Greg Wallace wrote: that
error pop-up every time I log on is getting old.
Similar problem: <http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=suse-linux-e&m=115844169712755&w=2>
The solution: <http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=suse-linux-e&m=115856813816560&w=2>
A Follow-up: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=suse-linux-e&m=115864330210455&w=2>
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Don
Good info. This was the type of operation I recalled and, in fact, it was probably this very thread. And it worked perfectly, just by stopping zmd, renaming zmd.db to old.zmd.db, and re-starting zmd. I have saved your note in case it ever happens again. One curious thing did happen. After doing this and logging out and back in, I didn't get the error message so I waited about an hour for the updater to pick up the updates I had seen out in YOU, but they never showed up. So, I went into you and installed them from there. As soon as I finished that, I noticed that the updater hand changed to the icon saying updates were waiting. So, I processed those updates as well. Hard to believe that new updates came out just in the 2 or 3 minutes it took to do the YOU update. Maybe I ended up installing some updates twice. In any event, I'm hoping I'll only need to use Zen going forward as I had been doing before. Thanks for pointing me to the solution.
Greg Wallace
In thinking about this a bit more, it makes you wonder why all of that information is saved in the first place. I mean, if you can just delete the entire database and have it still work, what's the point of keeping all of that stuff that's in there? Greg Wallace