Loss of accounts with f11 update

shmuel siegel fedora at shmuelhome.mine.nu
Fri Apr 3 13:57:04 UTC 2009


Kevin DeKorte wrote:
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> On 04/03/2009 04:15 AM, shmuel siegel wrote:
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>> 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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> I had this same problem without crashing my machine, here is how to fix it
>
> Boot the machine and enter grub and add 'S' to the end of the kernel
> line and boot the machine, this will get you into single user mode.
>
> Go into /etc and look for *.rpmsave files... rename all those files to
> not have .rpmsave on the end... ie  groups.rpmsave -> groups
>
> Go into /etc/pam.d and do the same thing...
>
> reboot normally...
>
> After this you should be able to login.
>
> Kevin
>
>   
Thanks for the suggestion to use single user mode. Much more convenient 
than a rescue disk. I didn't have any rpmsave files in pam.d





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