Borked system after last nights rawhide update
Seth Vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Thu Apr 2 13:05:15 UTC 2009
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Paul F. Johnson wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I did a big update last night from rawhide and other than the Noveau
>> problem
>> with GDM which has been updated, I didn't notice any problems. Then my
>> system
>> crashed...
>>
>> When I rebooted inittab was missing and udev was unable to find anything (I
>> had loads of udev failures for finding anything within /dev).
>>
>> As yet, I'm unable to get that machine to reboot and return to a desktop
>> (it
>> will get through to being able to log in, but as it can't find any of the
>> groups or users, it can't be logged in).
>>
>> I can boot from a RIPLinux disc and mount the drive, so everything is still
>> there (which is good).
>>
>> Any ideas on how to fix this problem? I've not seen any other reports on
>> here
>> so far.
>
> Do you have a yum.log of this system available? In bug 492947, according to
> yum.log "something" has *erased* half the system (including setup etc) in
> what appears to be a separate transaction, which will certainly end up in
> missing /etc/passwd and such.
>
And did you run yum-complete-transaction after an aborted transaction
where X died, by any chance?
-sv
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