/etc/inittab went away && wlan has weird device name

[Rahul Sundaram]

David D. Hagood wrote:
> Thomas J. Baker wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 10:18 -0500, Julian C. Dunn wrote:
>>> > I just did a yum update, updating to initscripts 8.31.1-1 (among other
>>> > things like a new kernel). When I rebooted, init complained that 
>>> inittab
>>> > was missing, so I rebooted into rescue mode and found that there was
>>> > an /etc/inittab.rpmsave but no /etc/inittab. Has anyone else had this
>>> > problem?
>>>
>>
> Yes, I did as well - I conjecture that the postinstall script of 
> initscripts barfed, and thus the old inittab had been moved, but the new 
> one not put into place. At least it isn't hard to fix *if* you know how 
> to boot into single user mode from grub, remount root as read/write, and 
> rename the file - in other words, a major disaster for a newbie, a minor 
> hassle for an old pro.

I had a report on this issue from one of the testers.

Rahul