Red Hat Network Alert Icon not alerting me of updates

[D. D. Brierton]

On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 15:29, William Hooper wrote:
> D. D. Brierton said:
> > I think my rhnsd service is not working properly. The Alert Icon in the
> > notification area is permanently a blue tick. It only ever turns into a red
> > exclamation mark if I run up2date manually.
> 
> rhnsd and rhn-applet (the "Alert Icon") have nothing to do with each other.

Really?! Now I'm totally confused. How does the rhn-applet determine if
updates are available if not from rhnsd?

> Since Fedora doesn't use RHN the rhnsd service doesn't do anything.

Oh. In that case I guess I should switch it off. But why is it included
with Fedora if it doesn't do anything?

> Your issue with rhn-applet might be releated to this bug:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=111302

Reading through the comments in that bug report I saw that one possible
problem is that the rhn-applet's cache of the state of RPM might be a
problem. Sure enough I used Red Carpet to install one of the seven
updates available, and as soon as it was installed the blue tick changed
into a red exclamation mark.

> Try running rhn-applet-tui manually from a terminal.

To determine what?

Thanks for the pointers.

Best, Darren

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