Bug 491111 - rhn-applet-gui has traceback when firefox is not there
Summary: rhn-applet-gui has traceback when firefox is not there
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Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: rhn-applet
Version: 4.8
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Jan Pazdziora (Red Hat)
QA Contact: Red Hat Satellite QA List
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-03-19 14:08 UTC by Petr Sklenar
Modified: 2010-08-03 07:31 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2010-08-03 07:31:48 UTC
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Description Petr Sklenar 2009-03-19 14:08:00 UTC
Description of problem:
rhn-applet-gui

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rhn-applet-2.1.27-6.el4

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. default installation of RHEL4 = its without firefox
2. register to rhn
3. left click to icon in tray (!)
4. click "RHN Website..."
5. traceback:

Actual results:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/rhn/rhn_applet/rhn_applet.py", line 418, in load_website
    gnome.url_show("https://rhn.redhat.com/")
gobject.GError: There was an error launching the default action command associated with this location

Expected results:
write message: default browser is not specified

Additional info:
There isn't firefox in default installation of rhel4. Default browser is maybe konqueror maybe none.

There is icon (functionless) to firefox in panel but package firefox is not there.

Comment 1 Jan Pazdziora (Red Hat) 2010-07-26 13:46:17 UTC
Taking.

I understand the issue but what do you propose to do if firefox is not installed? We cannot just try to run random programs (konqueror) to try to launch the thing.

And not running the applet probably also is out of question.

In a sense, I feel that this error message is the most sensible we can do for the user.

Comment 2 Jan Pazdziora (Red Hat) 2010-08-03 07:31:48 UTC
Given we don't have some sensible proposal about what should happen, closing.


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