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[Tomas Mraz]

On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 09:26 -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 07:05:25AM -0800, Tom London wrote:
> > This update 'saved' my /etc/pam.d/gdm in /etc/pam.d/gdm.rpmsave, but
> > failed to create a new /etc/pam.d/gdm. This made gdmgreeter very
> > unhappy.
> 
> Isn't this, by any chance, yet another hit by yum which in some
> circumstances instead of updating a package first removes it, thus
> saving various configuration file with an .rpmsave suffix, and
> later installs a new version but is careful enough not to clobber
> the same configurations which were saved?  There were hits of that
> with 'initscripts', for example, and this ends up with
> /etc/inittab renamed to /etc/inittab.rpmsave, which makes booting
> somewhat "inconvenient", :-) and other examples of a less dramatic
> nature.
> 
> There was a bug report opened for that but, unfortunately, somehow I
> cannot find it right now.  Anybody with a reference?  One of troubles
> is that apparently nobody knows how to reproduce that at will.
> I certainly failed when I tried.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196590

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Tomas Mraz
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