Failed attempt installing AdobeReader_enu.i486 (WORKAROUND)

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 11:34:02 -0400,
  Jim <mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> I did a rpm -e --nodeps nss-softokn-freebl and I was going to reinstall , BUT!! now I can't do a SU
> to reinstall no matter which way I go, I tryed to restart and go in as SINGLE user to reinstall, that didn't work, now I can't get back into my Desktop.
> I tryed the Fedora System Rescue disk and I still can't get back into SU.
> I guess I will have to do a Clean Install.

You can boot a rescue image and use that to reinstall nss-softokn-freebl and/or
do other related cleanup.
I usually do a series of mounts and chroot before running yum, but using
the --installroot is possibly a better way to do this.