--- Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 20:24 -0700, BRUCE STANLEY wrote:
> >
> > --- Sudev Barar <sbarar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > On 7/31/05, BRUCE STANLEY <bruce.stanley@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > When ever I try to logout of a Gnome session,
> > > > it seems to hang but if I wait about 4-5 minutes it
> > > > will usually logout, although I have had it hang
> > > > a couple of times (never logs out).
> > >
> > > Had similar problems in FC3 and the culprit seemed to be rhn-applet.
> > > Solved it by doing:
> > > #rpm -e rhn-applet
> > >
> >
> > Hi Sudev!
> > What exactly is the purpose of 'rhn-applet' ?
>
> rhn-applet is the little check-mark (or exclamation point) beside the
> date that tells you whether you need updates. It usually works OK, but
> can hang up.
>
> I use it on all my installs without any issues, but there have been
> problems with it on all platforms in the past (on RH like OSs). To be
> honest, I don't usually log out unless I am rebooting after a new kernel
> install on any of my machines :) ... but I don't have any issues that I
> can see.
>
> --
> Johnny Hughes
>
>
I ran 'rpm -e rhn-applet' and that solved the problem with the
Gnome logout hangs.
Howevr, when executing the rpm command as root on a terminal
screen (ctrl-alt-F1), I got several 'dma BadCRC' error messages
but everything worked ok. I also installed the kdegames rpms
off of the Centos #4 disk ( rpm -iv kdegams*.rpm) and got several
'BadCRC' error messages also, but everything installed and works ok.
Should I be concerned?
