From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: Due to user error, the RHN monitor applet got removed from my panel. Trying to add it back has proven fruitless, though it might be that the applet _IS_ starting but is showing at 1 pixel, which I see is mentioned in an earlier bug report regarding RHL 8. I've tried the following solutions: 1. Main Menu -> System Tools -> Red Hat Network Alert Icon I run it, nothing seems to happen, though it does produce item 13324 as shown below: [dee@localhost dee]$ ps aux | grep rhn root 3787 0.0 0.0 3404 428 ? S Apr19 0:00 rhnsd --interval 240 dee 13324 3.0 1.3 24212 13408 ? S 00:16 0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/rhn-applet-gui dee 13326 0.0 0.0 3576 640 pts/0 S 00:16 0:00 grep rhn Now, if I log out and back in, checking the "keep current settings" on the way out, it shows the RHN applet starting in the splash window but no applet on the panel, and again I would see it in the process listing. 2. I also tried: rhn-applet-gui & Nothing shows up, but (I killed the previous process so you won't see it again) I do have: [dee@localhost dee]$ ps aux | grep rhn root 3787 0.0 0.0 3404 428 ? S Apr19 0:00 rhnsd --interval240 dee 13327 5.5 1.3 24220 13416 pts/0 S 00:18 0:00 /usr/bin/python / usr/bin/rhn-applet-gui dee 13329 0.0 0.0 3576 640 pts/0 S 00:18 0:00 grep rhn So ... my guess is maybe it's showing up at a single pixel? I don't know, I even wiped out all of the applets and icons on that part of my panel and it just stays blank. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rhn-applet-2.0.9-0.9.0.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Remove RHN panel applet. 2. Try to restore with Main Menu -> System Tools -> Red Hat Network Alert Icon 3. See detailed discussion above. Actual Results: Nothing, but the process shows up in the process list. See detailed discussion above. Expected Results: The RHN panel applet should have appeared on my panel. I'd really like it back, please. :) Additional info: The icon was showing blue with the checkmark when it got deleted. I'm fully up to date as of around midnight Pacific, April 22.
Seems to be a duplicate of bug 76901. It is a rendering bug, apparently in the eggtray module. I'm unable to reproduce it myself, stopping the applet and restarting it works as expected, I have no idea how and why the display is been corrupted. The applet seems to work though, but doesn't show up correctly due to a container bug apparently. Since it seems to be a problem persisting over sessions, maybe discarding the preferences in ~/.gnome can fix the problem, but that doesn't sound right anyway. Daniel *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 76901 ***
The applet is useless if I can't see the icon telling me if I need to grab an update, so saying it works even though the icon isn't showing really isn't an answer. Which preferences in ~/.gnome would you recommend deleting? I don't see anything in there that looks like it deals particularly with rhn, and I don't feel like just randomly deleting things on my main machine. :) But I'm willing to try some things out to get this sucker fixed.
Okay, I meant "the code of the applet seems to work", the fact that it doesn't render and hence is not useful seems to be related to another program/library . For ~/.gnome , no idea where the configuration might be stored, so try to logout, login in a text console, do mv ~/.gnome ~/.gnome.bak go back through the graphical login and see if the applet rendering problem is corrected, then log out again, go back to the text console, rm -rf ~/.gnome and mv ~/.gnome.bak ~/.gnome to restore your preferences. Daniel
Moving ~/.gnome has absolutely no effect. Now, moving ~/.gnome2 takes away all the panel icons, so I thought that was the answer, but no, the RHN applet icon still wouldn't show up even though it started by default.
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.