Up2Date applet craps every time!

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Temlakos wrote:

> Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>> 
>> It is getting a bit annoying but for some reason or another,
>> Redhat's up2date applet is always broken with the greyed
>> question-mark icon and clicking on this icon results with
>> the message: 
>> Error: <ProtocolError for xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com /APPLET: 502 Proxy Error>
>> 
>> Clicking the 'OK' button reveals another dialog that says:
>> 
>> Your subscription has not been activated... blah, blah, blah and
>> the default radio button is on the 'Activate Now' message and
>> dutifully complying with 'OK' will not solve this problem.  This
>> same error will keep on popping up.
>> 
>> Please note that I do not need a proxy to get through my firewall
>> at all so it is not set (should it be?) or is it perhaps that my linux
>> firewall is the issue here?  If it were, then why is FC4 not setup to
>> allow this applet to punch through for updates?
>> 
>> In any case, can anyone give me pointers here?  I am currently using
>> Yum to get updates on a manual invocation.
>> 
>> Kind regards,
>> Dan
>> 
>
> Sorry; can't help you there. Up2date is broken in Fedora Core 4. It won't be 
> back until Fedora Core 5.

up2date itself works well enough for most purposes, but the applet is 
utterly useless.  And even if you configure it and remove it from the 
panel, it keeps coming back when you log in.

rpm -e rhn-applet



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 		Matthew Saltzman

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