On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 02:09:01PM -0700, Mike Wright wrote: > stan wrote: >> On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:48:17 -0700 >> Mike Wright <mike.wright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> The database is clean, no dupes, it verifies, and I'm stumped. >> >> If you have yum-utils installed, if you haven't already done so, >> you can run the command >> >> package-cleanup --problems >> >> If this shows no problems, as seems likely from your comment above, run >> >> >> yum-complete-transaction >> >> It will look for transactions that didn't finish and try to complete >> them. PackageKit actually uses yum under the covers, so it should find >> any from packagekit also. >> >> If that doesn't work, why not try another update? I don't recommend >> "yum clean all" in this case as that will remove all the packages >> you've already downloaded at such cost. Cleaning the metadata ensures >> that you get new repo data. >> >> yum clean metadata >> yum update >> >> This should work because yum doesn't actually update any packages until >> all the packages are downloaded and it has run a transaction test. >> > > Thanks both to Paul and Stan. You all are going to love this. > > I created a file with the contents of the station link: > > http://www.cbc.ca/livemedia/cbcr1-toronto.m3u > > I opened that as a PlayList in VLC, made my selection and tried to play > it. error...restart...error...restart... ad infinitum. But the error > wasn't coming from cbcr1-toronto.m3u, it was coming from, gonna love it, > http://vorbis.nm.cbc.ca:80/cbcr1-toronto.ogg. [pfrields@localhost ~]$ links -dump http://vorbis.nm.cbc.ca:80/cbcr1-toronto.ogg ELinks: Host not found So that's probably why -- their M3U file is just wrong. When I open that URL with rhythmbox on F-11, I get a host not found error. You might want to report the bad file content to the cbc.ca webmasters. > So I changed the extension to .ogg: > > http://www.cbc.ca/livemedia/cbcr1-toronto.ogg > > and reopened the PlayList in VLC, selected its one item and, ecco me qua > donna mia, it began to play. This was a good guess, basically. They happened to have the expected file at the good host (www.cbc.ca). -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines