From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040809 Description of problem: The rhn-applet desktop icon goes to a grey question mark with an exception and error. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rhn-applet--2.1.7-1.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.add a local file URL to rhn/sources 2. 3. Actual Results: Exception type exceptions.KeyError Exception Handler Information Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/rhn/rhn_applet/rhn_applet.py", line 458, in refresh self.model.refresh(force) File "/usr/share/rhn/rhn_applet/rhn_applet_model.py", line 376, in refresh if not self.fully_initialized(): File "/usr/share/rhn/rhn_applet/rhn_applet_model.py", line 310, in fully_initialized self.__build_sources() File "/usr/share/rhn/rhn_applet/rhn_applet_model.py", line 121, in __build_sources rhn_utils.log_debug("Failed to initialize source %s for %s : %s %s" % ( KeyError: 'url' Expected Results: a nice blue check mark :-) Additional info:
Created attachment 102736 [details] rhn applet sources file note the "file://" URL
That should work except $ARCH may not be substitued, try to replace with i386 or whatever is needed Daniel
That fixes the problem, but it is merely a workaround.
obsolete, not a problem in FC5, closing bug