Re: Borked system after last nights rawhide update

[Lennart Poettering <mzerqung 0pointer de>]

On Wed, 01.04.09 09:42, Paul F. Johnson (paul all-the-johnsons co uk) 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.

You have to find all .rpmsave files that got renamed and rename them
back.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492947

Lennart

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