I'm trying to start an `IntentService` from a clickhandler in my main activity. I'm studying `Intents` right now but don't quite get it yet. I'm not sure how I'm supposed to instantiate my intent here and pass it to `startService`. I don't know why I have to do such a thing, the `Intent` will not be used within my service, that I know of. I don't know how to debug this problem.

From the click callback:

```
    this.commute = new Commute();

    locationService = new LocationService();
    locationService.setCommute(commute);
    // com.orm.SugarApp@8b2e18f is this.getApplicationContext() ...
    Context context = this.getBaseContext();
    System.out.println("!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!");
    System.out.println(context);
    Intent intent = new Intent(context, LocationService.class);
    System.out.println(locationService);
    System.out.println(intent);
    locationService.startService(intent);  // <---- OFFENDING LINE
    System.out.println("@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@");

    chronometer.setBase(SystemClock.elapsedRealtime());
    chronometer.start();
    commute.start();

```

logcat before traceback, none of the objects are `null`...:

```
01-27 09:53:44.465    2718-2718/org.skyl.commutetracker I/System.out﹕ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
01-27 09:53:44.466    2718-2718/org.skyl.commutetracker I/System.out﹕ android.app.ContextImpl@8b2e18f
01-27 09:53:44.466    2718-2718/org.skyl.commutetracker I/System.out﹕ org.skyl.commutetracker.services.LocationService@387dcc1c
01-27 09:53:44.466    2718-2718/org.skyl.commutetracker I/System.out﹕ Intent { cmp=org.skyl.commutetracker/.services.LocationService }
01-27 09:53:44.466    2718-2718/org.skyl.commutetracker D/AndroidRuntime﹕ Shutting down VM
01-27 09:53:44.481    2718-2718/org.skyl.commutetracker E/AndroidRuntime﹕ FATAL EXCEPTION: main

```

This causes the following traceback:

```
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'android.content.ComponentName android.content.Context.startService(android.content.Intent)' on a null object reference
            at android.content.ContextWrapper.startService(ContextWrapper.java:515)
            at org.skyl.commutetracker.MainActivity.startCommute(MainActivity.java:86)
            at org.skyl.commutetracker.MainActivity.toggleClick(MainActivity.java:67)
            at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
            at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:372)

```