Loss of accounts with f11 update
Panu Matilainen
pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Fri Apr 3 10:30:50 UTC 2009
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, shmuel siegel wrote:
> 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
There was a bug (just fixed this morning) in rpm which makes
yum-complete-transaction do nasty things. Mind you the language in the
report is not for those easily offended...
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492947
The short recovery guide:
- boot from a rescue disk or with init=/bin/bash
- locate recent .rpmsave files, rename to original name (eg
/etc/passwd.rpmsave -> /etc/passwd)
- Panu -
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