From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20020812 Description of problem: When the GUI applet was restarted at a time when the RHN servers had severe problems (2002-10-08) it (or the server side?) got stuck in the stage which is described in the popup help as "Waiting until first checkin...". The applet never got beyond that and therefore never showed the availability of an errata. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: Hard to reproduce. 1.Screw up the RHN server as it happens in 2002-10-8 :-) 2.restart the GUI applet 3. Actual Results: Never got beyond initial checkin stage Expected Results: Applet should have aborted the checkin and retried it later. When the applet finally was aborted (by hand) and immediately restarted the communication worked just fine. Additional info:
we're looking into an errata for 8.0 that fixes the various error reporting problems in the applet, including this one. hopefully the servers will be more stable now, though... :)
Okay I commited a fix, this should hopefully close the bugs related to recovery on connection errors. Daniel
Haven't seen this problem since. If something like this pops up again it's better to open a new bug. Closing this one.