yum-applet-gui non-functional

[Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.