up2date(-gnome?) glitches across an ssh (-Y) connection

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

tir, 11.01.2005 kl. 04.15 skrev Gregory Woodbury:
> My rawhide install of 2005.01.09 was out-of-sync so I fired up an ssh
> connection from my FC3 gnome-terminal session and ran /usr/bin/up2date
> (after pointing /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources to my local mirror.)
> 
> The "initial configuration" screen of up2date contained "black
> rectangles" (trash bitmaps) instead of checkboxes for practically all
> the select options.  The main "Package Selection" screen had a trash
> bitmap instead of a checkbox for the "select all packages" option; the
> package selection checkboxes were okay.
> 
> I filed a low priority bugzilla for this, (#144744)

I have seen that with evolution and epiphany fc2->fc2.

The client was always a wireless laptop, with poor/medium coverage.
Restarting the app fixed it. Problem seen quite often.

Good night.

Kyrre