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@xxxxxxxxx >>> >>> 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@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@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 "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.
