coreutils is installed, cannot su -, and cannot add user still running as root

[Antonio Olivares]

> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com>
> To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
> Sent: Monday, April 7, 2008 7:46:05 AM
> Subject: coreutils is installed, cannot su -, and cannot add user still running as root
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I have run the updates on this machine, the fedora 7
> machine updated to rawhide.  I cannot add users and
> still cannot add users to troubleshoot errors.  
> 
> [root at localhost ~]# system-config-users
> The program 'system-config-users.py' received an X
> Window System error.
> This probably reflects a bug in the program.
> The error was 'BadName (named color or font does not
> exist)'.
>   (Details: serial 91 error_code 15 request_code 45
> minor_code 0)
>   (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are
>  reported asynchronously;
>    that is, you will receive the error a while after
> causing it.
>    To debug your program, run it with the --sync
> command line
>    option to change this behavior. You can then get a
> meaningful
>    backtrace from your debugger if you break on the
> gdk_x_error() function.)
> [root at localhost ~]# system-config-users --sync
> The program 'system-config-users.py' received an X
> Window System error.
> This probably reflects a bug in the program.
> The error was 'BadName (named color or font does not
> exist)'.
>   (Details: serial 91 error_code 15 request_code 45
> minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are
reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after
causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync
command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a
meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the
gdk_x_error() function.)
[root at localhost ~]# rpm -qa coreutils
coreutils-6.10-17.fc9.i386
[root at localhost ~]#


I updated to today's rawhide report, and I get the
following error message

*** removed to save space ****
(94/94): upstart-0.3.9-15 100%
|=========================| 243 kB    00:00     
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test


Transaction Check Error:
  file /usr/sbin/vipw from install of
shadow-utils-4.1.1-1.fc9.i386 conflicts with file from
package util-linux-2.13-0.54.1.fc7.i386
  file /usr/share/man/man8/vipw.8.gz from install of
shadow-utils-4.1.1-1.fc9.i386 conflicts with file from
package util-linux-2.13-0.54.1.fc7.i386

Error Summary
-------------

So I ran it with 
[root at localhost ~]# ./nodep 

and got most of the updates.  

How can I fix this issue?

Thanks,

Antonio 


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I can fix this one by doing an 
# rpm -e util-linux-2.13-0.54.1.fc7.i386

But the others, should I remove X and reinstall it?



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