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?
It turns out the list archives had the solution to this problem.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-June/msg05298.html
I was also helped by looking at bug 88356: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88356
I'd added the "applet" as an applet to the panel. This is not the right thing to do, because it's not really an applet. The correct thing to do is to:
(a) remove the bogus "applet" icon I'd added myself,
(b) ensure that there is a notification area on the panel [right click on the panel, "Add to Panel -> Utility -> Notification Area"],
(c) start the "applet" (either "Red Hat Network Alert" or "GYUM Alert Icon") from the main menu -> System Tools. It then appears in the notification area set up in step (b), working properly.
Paul.
