Description of problem: After a series of updates done on 2005-Jan-21 (pygtk2-2.5.2-1 looks like the most likely "culprit") rhn-applet-gui refuses to run. An attempt to start from a command-line ends up with the following in a terminal: /usr/share/rhn/rhn_applet/rhn_applet.py:263: GtkDeprecationWarning: gtk.timeout_add is deprecated, use gobject.timeout_add instead self.nag_timeout_tag = gtk.timeout_add(self.nag_interval * 1000, self.nag_handler) /usr/share/rhn/rhn_applet/rhn_applet.py:385: GtkDeprecationWarning: gtk.timeout_add is deprecated, use gobject.timeout_add instead self.animate_timeout_tag = gtk.timeout_add(int(math.floor(1000 * ANIMATION_TOTAL_TIME/len(frames))), self.animate_handler) /usr/share/rhn/rhn_applet/rhn_applet.py:290: GtkDeprecationWarning: gtk.timeout_add is deprecated, use gobject.timeout_add instead self.refresh_timeout_tag = gtk.timeout_add(when, self.refresh_handler, force) /usr/share/rhn/rhn_applet/rhn_applet.py:955: GtkDeprecationWarning: gtk.mainloop is deprecated, use gtk.main instead gtk.mainloop() followed by an alert that the program quit unexpectedly. No other notifications. rhn-applet-tui still runs fine and brings an expected information. That behaviour is the same on i386 and x86_64 installations. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rhn-applet-2.1.16-1 How reproducible: Always
Recent rawhide updates make this to work again. This indeed looks like pygtk2 although I was not trying to check.
rhn-applet was replaced by pirut and put (package pirut) as of FC5. Only FC5 and FC6 are currently fully supported; FC3 and FC4 are supported for security fixes only. If this bug occurs in FC3 or FC4 and is a security bug, please change the product to Fedora Extras and the version to match. If you can verify that the bug exists in RHEL as well, please change the product and version appropriately. The codebase for pirut and pup is quite different, but if a similar bug exists in pirut and pup in FC5 or FC6, please change the product to pirut and the version appropriately and update the bug report. We apologize that the bug was not fixed before now. The status will be changed to NEEDINFO, and if the bug is not updated with evidence that it is a security bug or a bug that affects RHEL, it will be closed. Note that rhn-applet may still be present on upgraded systems, and in general will not function correctly on such systems. That is not a bug; anaconda does not generally erase removed packages upon upgrades.
See comment #1