packagekit broke rhythmbox

[Bill Davidsen]

Mike Wright wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Using f10 here.
> 
> Once again packagekit broke my system.
> 
> I started an update yesterday afternoon and it seems it decided to
> connect to some repo in outer Slobovia with a 300 baud link, so I closed
> all my other applications and left it to do its thing.
> 
> When I got to my desk this morning the system was still "cleaning up".
> There was a popup on my desktop that showed a blue progress bar beneath
> which was "sos".  Gee that's useful.  Had to manually kill the updater.
> (should be called degrader ;)
> 
> When I went to use Rhythmbox to listen to CBC I no longer could.
> Apparently some decoder went missing during the update.  Yum update
> gstreamer and rhythmbox had no effect - "nothing to update" although it
> did advise me that it was freeing eighteen locks!
> 
> Here is what "ps" has to say:
> 
> rhythmbox
>  \_ /usr/libexec/gst-install-plugins-helper --transient-for=58720289
> gstreamer|0.10|rhythmbox|text/html decoder|decoder-text/html
> 
> How/where do I get and install this?  Why did it disappear (or was this
> dependency added)?
> 
> Why does packagekit hang?
> 
> This is extremely frustrating.  Between vim hanging and leaving zombies
> all over the place and now a system gone mute I have to say my
> experience with f10 has been the worst of the lot.  (Not a rant; just
> the facts, ma'am.)
> 
> If somebody can give me some help on this I'd be most appreciative.
> 
Don't interrupt downloads. I assume it was getting the
   /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sos
file when you killed it, probably leaving things python broken.

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Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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