A round green thing with two horizontal half arrows, the top one pointing right and the bottom one pointing left? That's rhn-applet-gui and that's its icon when it's checking for updates.Steven> [...] System Tools --> Redhat Network Steven> Alert Icon for up2date.
Yeah, the latter isn't it... it has the right icon, but that icon never changes. Whereas a right-click used to give me the options like "check now", and the picture would change according to if I was in need of an update or not, now it's just a static green image, and a different-sized icon than it used to be. So, I suspect that one's not right.
TRy running "rhn-applet-gui" on the command line and see if you get any useful messages.
If that doesn't help "strace rhn-applet-gui" is often a good one -- when (if) it gets stuck you'll see which system call it gets stuck in. You get reams of output from strace, but it's usually only the last bit you're interested in. It gets tricky though when you're trying to sort it all out for debugging, but sometimes it's dead obvious what the problem is. It's usually the network that's the problem :-)
jch
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