Which version of rhn-applet are you running?
I've got 2.1.4 on mine.
Have you tried 2.1.5?
Haven't yet -- only because I've been reluctant to put "unstable" or "testing" packages on my machine. 2.1.4-3 is what is at the stable updates section of
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/i386/
I imagine 2.1.5 will make it up to stable soon though <hoping!>.
Are your repos http? Are they yum repos?
yum repos. Here are the relevant snippets from my /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources file (some line wrapping is present):
###### fedora-core-1 ######
#yum fedora-core-1 http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/
yum fedora-core-1 http://ftp.dulug.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os
###### updates-released ######
#yum updates-released http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/i386/
yum updates-released http://ftp.dulug.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/i386
###### testing ######
#yum updates-testing http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/1/i386/
###### extras ###### yum livna-stable-fc1 http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/1/i386/yum/stable #yum livna-testing-fc1 http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/1/i386/yum/testing #yum livna-unstable-fc1 http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/1/i386/yum/unstable
yum fedora-us http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/stable
#yum fedora-us-unstable http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/unstable
#yum fedora-us-testing http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/testing
###### flash plug-in ##### yum macromedia-flash http://macromedia.mplug.org/apt/fedora/1
The is bug 111302, but not a lot of info about it: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=111302
-- Clint <clint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>