Totem=noshow

[Grumpy_Penguin]

On Monday 04 December 2006 00:20, 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.
Why use totem since mplayer will do what you want
> >>
> >>--
> >>  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?
>
> >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.
>
> --
> 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.