Re: Update applet

On Sat, 28 May 2011 05:36:42 am Dwight Paige wrote:
> On 05/26/2011 01:36 AM, Phil wrote:
> > On Thu, 26 May 2011 10:29:55 am Dwight Paige wrote:
> >> On 05/25/2011 06:03 AM, Phil wrote:
> >>> I've managed to remove the update applet from the task bar. I'm unable
> >>> to find it in any of the menu listings. Can someone tell what it's
> >>> called, please?
> >> 
> >> KDE or Gnome? In KDE 4 it's in system tray of menu panel. AFAIK
> >> mdkapplet icon is only visible in system tray when there are updates
> >> available. Don't know about it's behavior in Gnome. Or other desktops.
> > 
> > Thanks for the reply Dwight,
> > 
> > KDE 4.
> > 
> > I had a problem with an intermittent right mouse button that caused
> > several applets to disappear from the task bar. I got one back in it's
> > correct place and a second that is under the cashew icon and a third
> > (the net applet) that doesn't do anything except show that I'm always
> > connected to the Internet even when I'm not.
> > 
> > The update applet used to display a red exclamation mark when updates
> > were available. Now a dialog box flashes a messages for a split second
> > telling me that updates are available. There must be a setting somewhere
> > that I had inadvertently turned off.
> 
> Drat! I should have asked what version of Mandriva?
> 
> There 2 places I know of with settings that affect mdkonline/mdkapplet.
> MCC>Configure Updates Frequency and the mdkapplet icon [right click]
> itself. So this may be a catch 22...
> 
> mdkonline/mdkapplet are working in 2010.2 x86_64 here. If you are in
> 2010.* then open konsole and:
> 
> $ killall mdkapplet
> 
> $ mdkapplet --testing
> 
> Let us know what happens.

Thanks again for your reply Dwight,

I'm using version 2010.2 and all was well until the mouse right button became 
intermittent.

Eight lines similar to the following are displayed:

"medium "Main Updates (Official2010.2-2)" is up-to-date"

Followed by a long list of file names but his line might be the answer which is 
repeated four times:

CRITICAL **: dbus_g_proxy_connect_signal: assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' 
failed at /usr/bin/mdkapplet line 958.

I'll have a look at this line and see if it leads anywhere.

-- 
Regards,
Phil