[opensuse-factory] zen bug?

2006-10-17 Thread jdd
until the last zen update, my 10.1 installation send this message at starting time: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object in 0x003d6 Novell.Zenworks.Gui.ZenTrayIcon:CheckUpdatesLoop () in (wrapper delegate-invoke)

Re: [opensuse-factory] zen bug?

2006-10-17 Thread andreas . hanke
Hi, until the last zen update, my 10.1 installation send this message at starting time: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object in 0x003d6 Novell.Zenworks.Gui.ZenTrayIcon:CheckUpdatesLoop () in (wrapper delegate-invoke)

Re: [opensuse-factory] zen bug?

2006-10-17 Thread jdd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hi, until the last zen update, my 10.1 installation send this message at starting time: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object in 0x003d6 Novell.Zenworks.Gui.ZenTrayIcon:CheckUpdatesLoop () in (wrapper

Re: [opensuse-factory] zen bug?

2006-10-17 Thread Andreas Hanke
jdd schrieb: ?? I did not do anything to have this and it didn't show before Maybe you did not do anything, but the resolve-dependencies zypp helper did something: It segfaulted. This caused zmd.db to be left in an unusable state. Zen-Updater likes to show exactly this stack trace whenever that

Re: [opensuse-factory] zen bug?

2006-10-17 Thread Dominique Leuenberger
Reply on 17-10-2006 10:37:42 jdd schrieb: ?? I did not do anything to have this and it didn't show before Maybe you did not do anything, but the resolve-dependencies zypp helper did something: It segfaulted. This caused zmd.db to be left in an unusable state. Zen-Updater likes to show

Re: [opensuse-factory] zen bug?

2006-10-17 Thread Andreas Hanke
Dominique Leuenberger schrieb: Calling a program, that gives a stack trace on an invalid Database, 'Works For Me' is a bit brave behaviour. In no way, a program is allowed to crash out if a corrupt database is found. At LEAST an exact explanation to the user how to solve it (maybe what you

Re: [opensuse-factory] zen bug?

2006-10-17 Thread Dominique Leuenberger
Reply on 17-10-2006 10:58:15 Dominique Leuenberger schrieb: That's exactly what rug does... Ok, that's good like this The issue is really specific to zen-updater. I could never make rug crash, not even by copying MP3 audio files on top of /var/lib/zmd/zmd.db. It just says "Corrupted

Re: [opensuse-factory] zen bug?

2006-10-17 Thread Andreas Hanke
Dominique Leuenberger schrieb: About the hardened zen: do you know something about the libzypp 2.4.0 update for factury that should be synced? I'm still waiting for it! As my box at the moment can not use rug at all to remove or to install or to update packages (SIGSEGVing). But on no mirror I

Re: [opensuse-factory] zen bug?

2006-10-17 Thread jdd
Andreas Hanke a écrit : jdd schrieb: ?? I did not do anything to have this and it didn't show before Maybe you did not do anything, but the resolve-dependencies zypp helper did something: It segfaulted. may be there was a problem with the last ipdate, the problem shows only until then

Re: [opensuse-factory] zen bug?

2006-10-17 Thread Andreas Hanke
jdd schrieb: may be there was a problem with the last ipdate, the problem shows only until then The problem will disappear with libzypp 2.4.0. And come back next time something bad happens to your zmd.db for whatever reason. ;-) I add some words to inform anybody.

Re: [opensuse-factory] zen bug?

2006-10-17 Thread jdd
Andreas Hanke a écrit : http://en.opensuse.org/Using_zen-updater#Small_bug_fix That's not a bugfix. please, correct the title to be more appropriate, I'm short of idea :-( So, thanks, I will direct people to that wiki page in the future. It makes life much easier because typing these

Re: [opensuse-factory] zen bug?

2006-10-17 Thread Andreas Hanke
jdd schrieb: ?? I had understood that with 10.2 zen should fix the database itself? You're confusing stuff here. A software named zen does not exist. There is Zenworks, which consists of different programs: zmd, the daemon rug, a CLI interface for the daemon zen-updater, a GUI interface for

Re: [opensuse-factory] zen bug?

2006-10-17 Thread jdd
Andreas Hanke a écrit : jdd schrieb: ?? I had understood that with 10.2 zen should fix the database itself? You're confusing stuff here. I like your presentation. With it I think I begin to understand the all thing (not completely sure, but it comes :-). So, after some searching on the