Up2date icon freezing

[antonio montagnani]

antonio montagnani ha scritto / wrote  il / on 13/12/2004 15:22:

> Randy ha scritto / wrote  il / on 13/12/2004 15:13:
>
>> Up2date in gnome freezes for me very often.  I've seen it with slow 
>> up2date sites, and also when I select more than about five updates.  
>> Sometimes it works with more than five, but usually it doesn't.  I 
>> usually end up killing it and then selecting less updates the next 
>> time around, which usually works.  The good news is that stuff that 
>> was already downloaded doesn't need to be re-downloaded.  :-)  On the 
>> rare occasion when I've selected ten updates, usually two restarts 
>> will help it finish. (For me, it always locks up between downloads)  
>> Line speed isn't the problem.  I have 512k DSL.
>>
>> At 03:36 AM 12/13/2004, you wrote:
>>
>>> antonio montagnani ha scritto / wrote  il / on 10/12/2004 09:15:
>>>
>>>> Suddenly the up2date blue/red icon stop working on one of my PC'..
>>>> It keeps staying blue stating "searching for Updates on RHN" but no 
>>>> other action for hours.
>>>> At same time if I start the RedHat Network from my main menu, 
>>>> everything is fine (I can download updates).
>>>> The icon is so frozen that all options on the related menu with 
>>>> mouse right click are shadowed apart from Exit.
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestion
>>>
>>>
>>> disinstaleld up2date, up2date-gnome, firstboot, rhn-applet, then 
>>> re-installed but no improvement.
>>> The up2date works fine, but the applet still freezing: no idea how 
>>> to unlock it...
>>>
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>>
>>
> Randy, It is not my problem, as the Update from the menu works fine 
> even with 20 huge updates (this morning I downloaded latest updates), 
> but the small applet on the application bar on the far right is still 
> searching for updates...
> It was working in FC2 and for a week in FC3: no problem in another 
> similar machine.
> I suppose that Up2date and the gnome updte applet are usings same setup.
> Where is the locking stuff??
>
I tied to start rhn-applet-gui from a terminal and I get:

rhn-applet-gui
/usr/share/rhn/rhn_applet/rhn_applet.py:148: GtkWarning: 
/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/ engines/libredmond95.so: undefined symbol: 
gtk_widget_get_direction
  self.applet_window = eggtrayicon.create_window("rhn-applet")
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:90: 
GtkDeprecationWarni ng: gtk.mainloop is deprecated, use gtk.main instead
  self.warn(message, DeprecationWarning)
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:90: 
GtkDeprecationWarni ng: gtk.mainiteration is deprecated, use 
gtk.main_iteration instead
  self.warn(message, DeprecationWarning)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/rhn/rhn_applet/rhn_applet.py", line 460, in 
refresh_handler  self.refresh(force)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/rhn_applet/rhn_applet.py", line 577, in refresh   
if self.nag_check():
  File "/usr/share/rhn/rhn_applet/rhn_applet.py", line 533, in nag_check 
self.model.get_caps()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/rhn_applet/rhn_applet_model.py", line 255, in 
get_caps self.fully_initialized()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/rhn_applet/rhn_applet_model.py", line 368, in 
fully_initi alized self.__build_sources()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/rhn_applet/rhn_applet_model.py", line 134, in 
__build_sou rces rhn_utils.log_debug("Failed to initialize source %s for 
%s : %s %s" % (
KeyError: 'url'

the icon is started on the panel but is completely frozen. RHN Update 
works fine

Any hint??

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