The first time I try to select Operations~Preferences, gnorpm attempts to download several files from Red Hat. It eventually times out and closes gnorpm. The problem is that I was going to Operations~Preferences to set the proxy information. Without righting the config file by hand (or modifying the source), gnorpm becomes useless to me.
Just collecting the proxy bug reports into one place. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 19057 ***