Totem=noshow

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Monday 04 December 2006 02:12, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Sunday 03 December 2006 21:28, Les Mikesell wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 19:53, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>> What can I replace totem with that will work?
>>>>
>>>> I'm plumb out of patience with its I can't play this messages that do
>>>> not tell you what it can't play.
>>>
>>> Try enabling the livna repository and installing vlc.  It will play
>>> about anything you throw at it.
>>>
>>> --
>>>  Les Mikesell
>>>   lesmikesell at gmail.com
>>
>> My current theory is that while rpm thinks there is a java installed,
>> all the /usr/lib/java* subdirs are empty.
>>
>> So I truck meself off the the Sun site and dl
>> jdk-1_5_0_10-linux.rpm.bin, the very latest, shinyest version there.
>> But would you believe it was packed with rpm-4.0.4?  And it gives the
>> current 4.4.2, a segfault tummy ache.  Repeatedly.
>
> And now my rpm database appears to be hosed, even an rpm --rebuilddb seems
> to be hung in sleep state, no cpu usage and if I want to kill it, I'll
> have to do a SIGKILL on it from htop.  But, in the FWIW category, before
> I started that, it reported there was no java installed, without any
> errors.
>
> Now what the heck do I do?

Usually, you delete /var/lib/rpm/__db.* and then rpm --rebuilddb.


>
>> So now I'm back to get the other package to see what falls out of the
>> regular linux.bin file.
>>
>>
>> Ok, that unpacked, now where can I find a .spec file so that I can pack
>> it with the newer rpm & then install it?  Or is that not the correct
>> procedure now?
>>
>> --
>> Cheers, Gene
>> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
>> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
>> -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
>> Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above
>> message by Gene Heskett are:
>> Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
>
>

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 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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