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