F9: Manually editing passwd/group files causes rebooting to freeze up after udev....

[Dan Thurman]

Dan Thurman wrote:
>
> I was manually changing the /etc/passwd and /etc/group
> file since my users were incorrectly assigned UID/GIDs,
> I manually corrected the UID/GID in /home for each user,
> rebooted and noticed that I would get a hang just after
> udev.
>
> I tried ^D and noticed that something complaining
> about /var/run/anacron was not removable and that
> user anacron did not exist, and the system would then
> shutdown and reboot.
>
> On rebooting, I stopped grub and added -s and single
> user boot was successful.
>
> In single user, I checked what I could and finding nothing,
> and proceeded with ^D and noticed several things:
>
> 1) There was a message to the effect that several important
>    users (root, anacron, and others) was not able to be retrieved
>    from dbus's database.  The message appears too fast for me
>    to write it all down exactly.
>
> 2) Repeated messages of: "Unknown username "root" in message
>     bus configuration file, for each important users.
>
> Is there some way to repair the dbus database?
>
> Thanks!
> Dan
>
I forgot to add:

3) The system fails to start dbus, anacron, and a couple of other
    services but continues on to the text login prompt.  Attempts
    login as root or any normal user will fail.

Dan