From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: When starting the applet from the menu, the following error is thrown: An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for rhn-applet. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly. Clicking on the "Details" button reveals the following details. Configuration server couldn't be contacted: CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/BAD-OPERATION:1.0 Configuration server couldn't be contacted: CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/BAD-OPERATION:1.0 Configuration server couldn't be contacted: CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/BAD-OPERATION:1.0 Clicking on OK, allows the applet to continue in most cases, although the task-bar icon is NOT able to started as a result of this error. I get similar errors trying to run other redhat-config-* programs. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rhn-applet-2.0.9-0.9.0.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Click in the "System Tools" and then "Redhat Network Alert Icon" shortcut menu. 2. 3. Actual Results: see above Expected Results: launched the icon and rhn-applet Additional info: see above