Xmms opens just fine, when I click play the app just quits with a Segmentation fault. I have tried to "rpm --erase xmms" but it tells me the rpm is not installed. When I try a "rpm -i xmms" it says already installed. I also tried to force it, it installed but I still get the error. Any other ways to uninstall the rpm that might work? Any idea what causes the Segmentation error? This is on a day old fresh install of Fedora core 3.

Thanks, Andy.

i'd guess at a missing undetected dependency, but to really find what it is, you need to dig a lot deeper, if you run xmms through gdb (GNU DeBugger) you can find exactly where it gets to when it chokes. run "gdb /usr/bin/xmms". once it's loaded, enter "run" and use the app. when it crashes, run "bt" to show the execution stack, and show us. the last few lines often indicate a missing file, of a particular library that the problem come froms.

as for uninstalling etc... you're clearly not telling us what you're doing. "rpm -e xmms" WILL work, however, i'd place money on the fact that you're actually doing "rpm -e xmms-1.2.3.4.i686.rpm" or something, which is wrong, as that is a file, and not a package. it can be a little confusing abuot the different, but once you see the light, it doesn make a lot of sense. well... abuot as much sense as crappy RPM's ever can.

You are correct, I was doing "rpm -e xmms1.2.3.4???" If I do a "rpm -e xmms" I receive:

[root@Garage ~]# rpm -e xmms
error: Failed dependencies:
libxmms.so.1 is needed by (installed) xmms-mp3-1.2.10-9.1.1.fc3.fr.i386
libxmms.so.1 is needed by (installed) xmms-wma-1.0.3-1.1.fc3.fr.i386
xmms is needed by (installed) xmms-skins-1.2.10-9.1.1.fc3.fr.i386
xmms = 1:1.2.10 is needed by (installed) xmms-mp3-1.2.10-9.1.1.fc3.fr.i386
xmms >= 1.0.1 is needed by (installed) xmms-wma-1.0.3-1.1.fc3.fr.i386

How do I complety uninstall this? I will do the debug test next time I am at the machine, I got the above via SSH.

personally i don't think this is likely to help though.