Strangeness with recent FC5 update

[Bill Nottingham]

Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R (caf at omen.com) said: 
> Yesterday yum update installed a new kernel et al.
> For some reason /etc/inittab was renamed to /etc/inittab.rpmsave.
> rc.local got the same treatment.
> 
> I had to use a live Linux CD to repair the damage before
> FC5 would boot properly.
> 
> Why would RPM mess with these files?  Any other files hosed
> that I should worry about?

See bug 197906.

Bill