On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 15:29, William Hooper wrote: > D. D. Brierton said: > > I think my rhnsd service is not working properly. The Alert Icon in the > > notification area is permanently a blue tick. It only ever turns into a red > > exclamation mark if I run up2date manually. > > rhnsd and rhn-applet (the "Alert Icon") have nothing to do with each other. Really?! Now I'm totally confused. How does the rhn-applet determine if updates are available if not from rhnsd? > Since Fedora doesn't use RHN the rhnsd service doesn't do anything. Oh. In that case I guess I should switch it off. But why is it included with Fedora if it doesn't do anything? > Your issue with rhn-applet might be releated to this bug: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=111302 Reading through the comments in that bug report I saw that one possible problem is that the rhn-applet's cache of the state of RPM might be a problem. Sure enough I used Red Carpet to install one of the seven updates available, and as soon as it was installed the blue tick changed into a red exclamation mark. > Try running rhn-applet-tui manually from a terminal. To determine what? Thanks for the pointers. Best, Darren -- ===================================================================== D. D. Brierton darren@xxxxxxxxxxx www.dzr-web.com Trying is the first step towards failure (Homer Simpson) =====================================================================
