At 10:36 PM -0600 1/10/06, J.Moore wrote: >On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 22:11 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > >> > The "blinking icon" works just fine. There's no reason to uninstall >> > it. You'll probably never catch it blinking if you have the yum >> > nightly update service enabled, but it does accurately detect when you >> > need to install patches. >> >> No, in FC4 it doesn't. up2date works fine (except with livna), yum works >> fine, but the RHN applet apparently doesn't read the current format for >> repository metadata, so it won't detect when updates are needed. And >> there doesn't seem to be a way of preventing it from starting on login >> short of removing the RPM. > >FWIW, it doesn't work properly in FC3 either... up2date quit working >reliably several months ago, so I began using 'yum update'. The >'blinking icon' stopped working properly about the same time. It mostly >stays blue (meaning no updates available/needed) now, although it will >turn red occasionally *during* the 'yum update' process. Works for me. The updates it offers match up well with the FedoraNews FC3 update list. Probably something is stuck on yours, I would guess in Up2date somewhere. Man up2date may be helpful in suggesting what files might be corrupt. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
