zen-updater crashes

Hello,

I've been trying to deal with this one for a few weeks now --

All of the updates available to me in 10.1 have been applied, and now
I'm getting the following error upon startup of zen-updater:

System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance
of an object
in <0x002d6> Novell.Zenworks.Gui.ZenTrayIcon:CheckUpdatesLoop ()
in (wrapper delegate-invoke) System.MulticastDelegate:invoke_void ()

...at which point, the program gives up the ghost.

Is this a known issue, or is a fix available, or did something in the
update process blow the zenworks system to smithereens?

Any feedback is welcome.

-Matthew Hatch


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Matthew,

did you try a Yast Online Update? This should apply a Zen fix.

Uwe

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Matthew Hatch wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've been trying to deal with this one for a few weeks now --
>
> All of the updates available to me in 10.1 have been applied, and now
> I'm getting the following error upon startup of zen-updater:
>
> System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance
> of an object
> in <0x002d6> Novell.Zenworks.Gui.ZenTrayIcon:CheckUpdatesLoop ()
> in (wrapper delegate-invoke) System.MulticastDelegate:invoke_void ()
>
> ...at which point, the program gives up the ghost.
>
> Is this a known issue, or is a fix available, or did something in the
> update process blow the zenworks system to smithereens?
>
> Any feedback is welcome.
>
> -Matthew Hatch

I'm having the same issue.

- Donald Ade

Uwe Buckesfeld wrote:

> Matthew,
>
> did you try a Yast Online Update? This should apply a Zen fix.
>
> Uwe
>
Yast update seems ...useless compare to past versions (10.0, 9.3, etc...)
Yast Updater in 10.1 shoots right to manual selection rather then automatic
(which seem nonexistent)

- Donald Ade

Donald Ade wrote:

> Uwe Buckesfeld wrote:
>
>> Matthew,
>>
>> did you try a Yast Online Update? This should apply a Zen fix.
>>
>> Uwe
>>
> Yast update seems ...useless compare to past versions (10.0, 9.3, etc...)
> Yast Updater in 10.1 shoots right to manual selection rather then
> automatic (which seem nonexistent)
>
> - Donald Ade

figured put how to fix it. Yast online update (aleast for me) is all
manual, so I had to find the libzypp and choose that to be updated and then
all the other files followed suite. I then searched for zen and choose to
update that and viola all is fine.

I still miss 10.0 and older Yast online update

Uwe Buckesfeld wrote:
> Matthew,
>
> did you try a Yast Online Update? This should apply a Zen fix.
>
> Uwe
>

Yeah, all online updates have been applied with no improvement.

-Matthew


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Matthew,

so if you start Yast Online Update, there's no libzypp update available any more? And you did reboot?
Sorry, no idea what to do next then.

Uwe

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On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 16:34:09 +0000, Donald Ade wrote:

> figured put how to fix it. Yast online update (aleast for me) is all
> manual, so I had to find the libzypp and choose that to be updated and
> then all the other files followed suite. I then searched for zen and
> choose to update that and viola all is fine.

well, i updated libzypp and then zen and i still get

System.NullReferenceException<snip>
BUT, now the zen icon pops up in the system tray...before it did NOT!

me thinks it is broke.

DenverD

DenverD,

did you exit the zen-updater and restart, or did you reboot after the libzypp update?

Uwe

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