Borked system after last nights rawhide update

[Seth Vidal]

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?

-sv