Totem=noshow

[Jim Cornette]

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.

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

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