today's yum update trashes FC3?

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 17:36 -0800, Dan Hollis wrote:
>A friend of mine reported that today's yum update trashed two completely 
>separate FC3 machines of his. It would hang during grub load, just sits 
>there with a blinking _
>
>here are the updates that went in today:
>
>gaim-1.1.3-1.FC3.i386.rpm
>squid-2.5.STABLE8-1.FC3.1.i386.rpm
>pcmcia-cs-3.2.7-2.2.i386.rpm
>openssh-clients-3.9p1-8.0.1.i386.rpm
>openssh-askpass-gnome-3.9p1-8.0.1.i386.rpm
>openssh-askpass-3.9p1-8.0.1.i386.rpm
>openssh-3.9p1-8.0.1.i386.rpm
>openssh-server-3.9p1-8.0.1.i386.rpm
>postgresql-libs-7.4.7-3.FC3.1.i386.rpm
>
>he reports it rebooted fine before he did the update, and after he did the 
>update, it no longer loaded grub. he had to boot off a grub floppy to 
>recover it.
>

Let's see:
 1. yum doesn't modify grub in fc3 - that's handled in the kernel
package %post
 2. none of those packages even remotely touch the grub.conf or
associated files.
 3. are we sure your friend didn't do anything else to these systems?

-sv