Bug 688627

Summary:	no GNOME menu item for rhn_register GUI
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Jan Hutař <jhutar>
Component:	rhn-client-tools	Assignee:	Miroslav Suchý <msuchy>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Martin Minar <mminar>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	5.6	CC:	cperry, mkoci, mminar, msuchy
Target Milestone:	rc
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Fixed In Version:	rhn-client-tools-0.4.20-48.el5	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	The file /usr/share/application/rhn_register.desktop was missing in the previous version of the rhn-setup-gnome package. Therefore, there was a menu item missing in the graphical user interface of the rhn_register utility. This problem has been fixed: the file is now included and the utility works as expected.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2011-07-21 07:08:53 UTC	Type:	---
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Description Jan Hutař 2011-03-17 14:41:24 UTC

Description of problem:
I have GNOME and rhn-setup-gnome installed and there is missing *.desktop file => there is missing graphical menu item for the registration tool.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rhn-setup-gnome-0.4.20-46.el5


How reproducible:
always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. # rpm -ql rhn-setup-gnome | grep desktop


Actual results:
No menu item for the registration utility


Expected results:
There should be menu item as on RHEL6


Additional info:
This worked for me:
echo '[Desktop Entry]' >/usr/share/applications/my-rhn-register.desktop
echo 'Name=RHN Registration' >>/usr/share/applications/my-rhn-register.desktop
echo 'Categories=Application;SystemSetup;X-Red-Hat-Base;' >>/usr/share/applications/my-rhn-register.desktop
echo 'Icon=up2date.png' >>/usr/share/applications/my-rhn-register.desktop
echo 'Exec=/usr/sbin/rhn_register' >>/usr/share/applications/my-rhn-register.desktop
echo 'Type=Application' >>/usr/share/applications/my-rhn-register.desktop
echo 'Terminal=false' >>/usr/share/applications/my-rhn-register.desktop
echo 'Encoding=UTF-8' >>/usr/share/applications/my-rhn-register.desktop
echo 'X-Desktop-File-Install-Version=0.10' >>/usr/share/applications/my-rhn-register.desktop

Comment 1 Miroslav Suchý 2011-03-17 19:05:11 UTC

Back ported from spacewalk.git as rev. 201835.

Comment 4 Eliska Slobodova 2011-06-29 11:58:31 UTC

    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
The file /usr/share/application/rhn_register.desktop was missing in the previous version of the rhn-setup-gnome package. Therefore, there was a menu item missing in the graphical user interface of the rhn_register utility. This problem has been fixed: the file is now included and the utility works as expected.

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2011-07-21 07:08:53 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0997.html