RHN Monitor fails to load following at-stable upgrade

Kam Leo kam.leo at gmail.com
Fri Jan 7 04:08:53 UTC 2005


On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 20:02:57 -0500, Temlakos <temlakos at gmail.com> wrote:
> Everyone:
> 
> Recently I activated the at-stable repository for apt, and also
> configured yum for this. Now I have a problem--well, maybe: the Red Hat
> Network Monitor, that little icon that makes either a check mark or a
> red exclamation point ("screamer" in the UK), won't load. Worse yet, it
> causes a delay in the appearance of the Log Out dialog, which is only
> resolved by running an application--Evolution will do, and maybe
> Firefox. Weird. I do know that at-stable had an upgrade for up2date. I
> can still activate up2date by hand, using the System Tools menu.
> 
> What happened to the RHN monitor? Why won't it load? How can I get it
> back?
> --
> Temlakos <temlakos at gmail.com>
> 

If you added the ATrpms repository after reading the various postings
on this list about Axel's packages I would suggest that you go to
Axel's site and post this as a bug for him to fix.

On the other if you unwittingly added his site and you want minimal
dependency conflicts with other repositories:
a) disable the ATrpms repository for apt, up2date and yum;
b) install smart (Smart Package Manager, http://smartpm.org); and 
c) use smart to downgrade/remove the .at packaged versions of yum,
up2date and rpm.
You may want to remove other .at packages but that is where I suggest
you start.

Oh, by the way, Axel fixed it so that you don't really need RHN
monitor.  Axel bundled his own little program, atrpms, as a dependecy
for many of his packages.  Run "rpm -q atrpms" and see if it's
installed. atrpms runs a cron job using yum to check for updates. 
Removing atrpms is quite a dependency exercise (hint: get smart).




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