Strangeness with recent FC5 update

[Richard Hally]

Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R (caf at omen.com) said: 
>> Yesterday yum update installed a new kernel et al.
>> For some reason /etc/inittab was renamed to /etc/inittab.rpmsave.
>> rc.local got the same treatment.
>>
>> I had to use a live Linux CD to repair the damage before
>> FC5 would boot properly.
>>
>> Why would RPM mess with these files?  Any other files hosed
>> that I should worry about?
> 
> See bug 197906.
> 
> Bill
> 
Just as another data point, over the weekend, I did a yum update of my 
rawhide box and some package renamed /etc/passwd and /etc/group files to 
  .rpmsave and I was getting messages like "user root does not exist" 
and could not login at all. I used a rescue disk to get in and rename 
the files and was able to boot and login. If you would like more 
details, let me know. I suspected the setup rpm that part of the update.

Richard