up2date failing to connect to RHN

[William Hooper]

Steven Stromer wrote:
> My RHN up2date icon has suddenly decided to become a greyed out question
> mark. It is generating the error:
>
> Error: <ProtocolError for xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/APPLET:502 Proxy Error>

It should be noted that the rhn-applet doesn't work properly on FC4 anyway.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160873

> I do not run a proxy. I understand that accidentally selecting
> 'register' when asked may cause the greyed out icon symptom, but I can
> find no better information than this. If anyone can give assistance, I'd
> appreciate it!

If this is the problem, look at /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources.  The "up2date
default" line should be commented out.  IIRC there may also be something
in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date, but I can't remember what it is off the top
of my head.

-- 
William Hooper