Borked system after last nights rawhide update
Panu Matilainen
pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Fri Apr 3 08:51:10 UTC 2009
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 -
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