Re: Borked system after last nights rawhide update

[Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik redhat com>]

On Wednesday 01 April 2009 10:42:45 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).

I have same issue - for me easy solution worked - I've reinstalled it with 
f11-beta as I needed to test our KDE image and it's my testing laptop. And I 
have no glue what happened to file a bug...

Jaroslav

> 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.
>
> TTFN
>
> Paul
>
> --
> It's only me, only me and no-one else.

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