[Xen-cim] Re: Null pointer exception

[Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Subrahmanian, Raj wrote:
>>> I think I understand why I am getting the null pointer exception. 
>>> The VSManagement service parses the Virtual Systems Setting 
>>>       
>> Data, in 
>>     
>>> the function vssd2xenconfig.
>>> When it looks for some property value like so propertyvalue = 
>>> CMGetProperty(vssd, "OnReboot", status) And that property 
>>>       
>> value does 
>>     
>>> not exist, I am getting an error like this.
>>> RequestHandlerIFCXML::doProcess caught
>>> Exception:OW_COWIntrusiveReference.cpp: 62
>>> NULLCOWIntrusiveReferenceException: NULL COWReference dereferenced 
>>> Clearly this shouldn't be happening.
>>> Any idea how I can debug this?
>>>       
>> Have you updated your schema?  E.g. 'owmofc 
>> Xen_ComputerSystemSettingData.mof'.  Or easier, 'make 
>> postinstall' to ensure all classes are updated in the cimom.
>>     
> Yeah, still happens.
>
> The issue is not with OnReboot exactly.
> Let's say I am using a bootloader and I don't enter the Kernel parameter
> in the python file. 
> When it runs the CMGetProperty for the 'Kernel' option, it dies with
> that same exception.
>   

Ah, I now I'm remembering an openwbem issue that was causing this
problem on DefineSystem().  I already fixed this bug so no use debugging
it again :-).  Any new OW package from SP1 should do the trick.  Update
your OW packages from beta 4.

Jim

> Raj
>   

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