yum-applet-gui non-functional

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Paul Howarth wrote:
> Being a long-time user of autorpm (http://www.autorpm.org/), I thought 
> I'd give the "official" update methods a try. So I installed yum, which 
> seems to work OK, and also yum-applet, which is based on rhn-applet. 
> However, the applet always shows the "checking for updates" icon and if 
> I left-click on the applet, no window appears but a process 
> "/usr/bin/python /usr/bin/yum-applet-gui" is started, and never exits. I 
> see the same thing on two different machines, and the same thing with 
> the original rhn-applet. Any thoughts on why this might be happening?
> 
> Paul.
> 
> 

Paul,
	I had the same problem with the rhn-applet after my "by hand" upgrade 
of RedHat 7.3 to 9.0.  And it remained that way for me when I then 
upgraded to FC2.
	What turned out to be my problem was that somewhere along the line 
(since rhn-applet was working correctly for me under RH7.3) I lost my 
"notification area" in my gnome panel.  (Or maybe it became necessary to 
have one sometime after RH7.3.)  After I put a "notification area" in my 
gnome panel, and then re-installed the rhn-applet into it, it works fine 
again.  The one major difference I notice is the size of the icon used 
in the notification area is much smaller than the one that was in the 
gnome panel for RH7.3.  This is probably the dead give away that 
something changed (but, if you don't know that, its not very intuitive 
to figure it out!).

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