Yum updates Annoyances

[McBroom, Robert C]

Running a FC6 cluster that cannot be connected to the internet.  Gnome
keeps sending the message:
Introspect error: The name edu.duke.linux.yum was not provided by any
.service files
Unable to connect to yum-updatesd.  Please ensure that the yum-updatesd 
package is installed and that the service is running.

The last two lines repeat and repeat.
How do I tell Gnome to desist forever and ever.  I keep FC6 current with
updates via a respin DVD with yum mapped to the RPMS file on the DVD.

The command
rpm -qa|grep yum

Gives

yumex-1.1.4-2.0.fc6
yum-3.0.1-2.fc6
kyum-0.7.5-4.fc6
yum-metadata-parser-1.0-8.fc6
yum-utils-1.0.1-1.fc6

 
Robert McBroom