Loss of accounts with f11 update

shmuel siegel fedora at shmuelhome.mine.nu
Fri Apr 3 10:15:02 UTC 2009


I did a massive (~800mb) yum update last night, apparently in two 
stages. My laptop ran out of power in the middle before completing the 
transaction. I later ran yum-complete-transaction which removed 173 
packages. I know that at least some of this was correct since it removed 
old versions of wine and wireshark. Unfortunately, the passwd file seems 
to have problems now, the boot process complains that root is an unknown 
user. After loading all daemons that will work, the machine becomes 
unusable since I don't know any valid login names.

1) - how do I make my laptop usable ( I don't want to reinstall because 
I am not sure that I remember how to up broadcom wireless)
2) - what should I look for to help track down the problem




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