Borked system after last nights rawhide update

[Panu Matilainen]

On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Seth Vidal wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Paul F. Johnson wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I did a big update last night from rawhide and other than the Noveau 
>>> problem
>>> with GDM which has been updated, I didn't notice any problems. Then my 
>>> system
>>> crashed...
>>> 
>>> When I rebooted inittab was missing and udev was unable to find anything 
>>> (I
>>> had loads of udev failures for finding anything within /dev).
>>> 
>>> As yet, I'm unable to get that machine to reboot and return to a desktop 
>>> (it
>>> will get through to being able to log in, but as it can't find any of the
>>> groups or users, it can't be logged in).
>>> 
>>> I can boot from a RIPLinux disc and mount the drive, so everything is 
>>> still
>>> there (which is good).
>>> 
>>> Any ideas on how to fix this problem? I've not seen any other reports on 
>>> here
>>> so far.
>> 
>> Do you have a yum.log of this system available? In bug 492947, according to 
>> yum.log "something" has *erased* half the system (including setup etc) in 
>> what appears to be a separate transaction, which will certainly end up in 
>> missing /etc/passwd and such.
>> 
>
> And did you run yum-complete-transaction after an aborted transaction where X 
> died, by any chance?

Never mind, bug found and fixed in rpm 4.7.0-0.beta1.9, details in 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492947#c36.

 	- Panu -