On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Robert Nichols > <rnicholsNOSPAM at comcast.net> wrote: > <snip> >> A common cause of failures like that is damaged directory permissions >> near the top of the filesystem hierarchy, often as a result of >> unpacking a tar archive into the root directory. Hm - well, _I_ never do that, and I rather doubt that yum did, either, 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? > Mark: If you trace it back to the libdvdcss package from rpmforge, > notify them about it. Strange that it works OK for you at home and you > hosed your Workstation at work, but that's Murphy's Law. Good luck > getting it working! Possibly try this again, under VMWare, when you > are relaxed and want to see if it can be recreated. Lanny 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. Still, past experience told me this would not be a problem. I guess that would best be described as naive.... mhr