Yum error with "runuser" not found

[M A Young]

On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Timothy Murphy wrote:

> But if it doesn't work there usually seems to be nothing you can do about it,
> eg the current message
>
> =======================================
> Restarting Dependency Process with new changes
> Error: missing dep: /bin/runuser for pkg initscripts
> =======================================
>
> What is one meant to do when you get this error message?

If this happens it means either there is something you have to fix
yourself (eg. if you have installed 3rd party RPMS) or the packages
themselves are broken. In the test environment it is quite often the
latter.

In this case you check the mailing lists and bugzilla
(http://bugzilla.redhat.com/) to see if anyone else is seeing the same
problem, report it in bugzilla if it isn't already there, then wait for it
to be fixed (or if you are a good enough hacker, work out what the fix
should be and add it to the bugzilla report).

In this particular case the coreutils package moved /bin/runuser to
/sbin/runuser recently, and initscripts hadn't quite caught up, but the
dependency is fixed in the very latest version of initscripts (7.88-1).

	Michael Young