Error starting KDE and Zen Updater

  • Document ID:3205831
  • Creation Date:29-Sep-2006
  • Modified Date:27-Apr-2012
    • Micro Focus Products:
      ZENworks Linux Management

Environment

Novell ZENworks Linux Management Linux Management 7 - ZLM7

Situation

When starting KDE error returned: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Error when refreshing Zen Updater: Refresh Failed: Failed to parse XML metadata: database disk image is malformed.

Resolution

Follow the steps below.
1) Open a terminal.
2) rczmd stop
3) rm -f /var/lib/zmd/zmd.db
4) rczmd start