On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:47 PM, MHR <mhullrich at gmail.com> wrote: > <snip> >>>> unpacking a tar archive into the root directory. >> Hm - well, _I_ never do that, and I rather doubt that yum >did, either, > > Since you got it from rpmforge, I assume it was an rpm and not a tar file. > >> but I suppose that would depend on what's in libdvdcss. >I find it >> hard to believe that it wasn't something else more >subtle with k3b, >> but, again, who knows? > > Or, more probably, with the libdvdcss > <snip> >> 1) I did ask on the rpmforge list. Waiting to hear back from there, too. >> >> 2) I am just now beginning to really appreciate >virtualization. > > A bunch of the gurus on this list use it. If I had a box with more > RAM, I would try it. > >> Still, past experience told me this would not be a >problem. I guess >> that would best be described as naive.... > > I think since it works OK on your Desktop at home, that's not so > naive. But, the HW is different and something may be awry on the HW on > your Workstation at work. Or, there may have been a power glitch, > while you were installing the SW. Is your Workstation on a UPS? Been > using K3b for a long time here and never a disaster, like you > experienced today. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Virtualization is great and all, but not sure that watching a dvd on a virtual machine would work so well.