Totem=noshow
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Mon Dec 4 13:51:17 UTC 2006
On Monday 04 December 2006 06:42, Jim Cornette wrote:
>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?
>
>Dumb answer on my part, but it works for me. Reboot into runlevel 1 and
>try to rebuild rpm from single user mode. This process worked for me. I
>however removed any __db* files that either rpm or rpmrebuild lists
>after locating the __db* files before attempting a rebuilding of the
>database.
>
Humm, I've tried that, without the runlevel 1, 3 times now, and I have 3
new rpm directories that seem to have copied the __db.001 and __db.002 db
files ok, but __db.000 and db.003 aren't transferred. I let it sit for
an hour the 2nd time before I killed it, the last attempt has not
returned to the cli, and I just killed it with htop. When I woke up this
morning I had several cron driven processes involving rpm all hung too.
So this is what I have now, what should I nuke before this next try at
runlevel 1?
[root at coyote ~]# ls -lR /var/lib/rpm*
/var/lib/rpm:
total 74328
-rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 10702848 Dec 4 00:44 Basenames
-rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 12288 Dec 3 18:07 Conflictname
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 30 07:35 __db.000
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24576 Nov 30 06:27 __db.001
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1318912 Nov 30 06:27 __db.002
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 450560 Nov 30 06:27 __db.003
-rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 2781184 Dec 4 00:44 Dirnames
-rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 10563584 Dec 4 02:10 Filemd5s
-rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 45056 Dec 4 00:44 Group
-rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 28672 Dec 4 00:44 Installtid
-rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 86016 Dec 4 00:43 Name
-rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 52453376 Dec 4 00:43 Packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 655360 Dec 4 00:44 Providename
-rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 172032 Dec 4 00:44 Provideversion
-rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 12288 Dec 3 18:04 Pubkeys
-rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 475136 Dec 4 00:44 Requirename
-rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 323584 Dec 4 00:44 Requireversion
-rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 176128 Dec 4 00:44 Sha1header
-rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 90112 Dec 4 00:44 Sigmd5
-rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 12288 Dec 3 18:07 Triggername
/var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.11829:
total 48
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24576 Dec 4 03:52 __db.001
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1318912 Dec 4 03:52 __db.002
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 Dec 4 03:52 Packages
/var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.23254:
total 48
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24576 Dec 4 02:13 __db.001
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1318912 Dec 4 02:13 __db.002
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 Dec 4 02:13 Packages
/var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.27690:
total 48
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24576 Dec 4 02:34 __db.001
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1318912 Dec 4 02:34 __db.002
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 Dec 4 02:34 Packages
[root at coyote ~]#
>Regarding totem. I usually remove it and install xine, totem-xine and
>any players that actually work. Since multimedia is not a big interest
>for me lately, usually I do not get around to adding items for a long
>time after installs.
>
>Jim
>
>--
>If we all work together, we can totally disrupt the system.
I think we've succeeded in this case. :(
--
Cheers & thanks Jim, Gene
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