Re: Borked system after last nights rawhide update

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?