Borked system after last nights rawhide update

[Panu Matilainen]

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.

 	- Panu -