Re: beagled System.NullReferenceException

["sean dettrick" <sdettrick hotmail com>]

<br>&gt;<br>[cut]<br><br>&gt;Is this something to do with my configuration 
or a 
bug?<br>&gt;Thanks<br>&gt;Sean<br>&gt;<br>&gt;------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>&gt;<br>&gt;_______________________________________________<br>&gt;Dashboard-hackers 
mailing 
list<br>&gt;Dashboard-hackers gnome org<br>&gt;http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>Sean,<br><br>As 
Beagle has so many dependencies, I'd work on keeping things as simple as 
possible.  In particular, try to take all Beagle related files from the same 
repository family.  In your case, I'd replace mono*novell rpms with mono 
from the nrpms repositories given that you're using nrpms for the other 
dependencies.<br><br>I've had very good luck using this approach given the 
issues involved.  The biggest problem I am aware of with the current Fedora 
installation is an inability to start beagle without disabling the evolution 
backend (which disables contact indexing, not Evolution mail indexing).  You 
can check out my experience installing Beagle on Fedora Core 4 
http://www.antezeta.com/beagle-fedora.html .<br><br>Sean 
Carlos<br><br><br></font></BLOCKQUOTE>

Sean,
thanks very much for your response.  I followed your advice and now Beagle 
and Best seem to be working.  I am using kernel 2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.

I confess that I had already read your webpage, but the real problem was 
that I am new to yum and didn't realize it was downloading the mono package 
from somewhere unexpected.
In case there is someone else like myself who is new to yum, I did the 
following:
1.
edited all of the /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo files (for some people, maybe 
/etc/yum.conf), setting
enabled=0
for ALL entries, except for the following, which were changed to enabled=1
[extras]
[nr-mono]
[nr-mono-devel]
[nr-production]
[nr-testing]

2.
Erased all of my existing, incompatible packages (from previous failed 
attempts!)
  ~> yum erase tomboy gecko-sharp dbus-sharp galago-sharp gsf-sharp \
                       gtk-sharp gmime-sharp gst-sharp beagle mono-base 
mono

3. Install beagle and others (this installed/updated 32 packages)
  ~> yum install beagle galago-sharp gtk-sharp2 gecko-sharp2

4. At this point, beagled still did not work, even though I was denying the 
evolution backend as recommended, via the command:
  ~> beagled  --deny-backend EvolutionDataServer
So I installed evolution-sharp:
  ~> yum install evolution-sharp
This installed/updated 52 packages!

After this it worked, more or less.  The end product is unbelievably good.

Thanks again,
Sean