Pam problem? or maybe something else

[oldman]

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Hello list:
>>Sorry if this appears twice, it has been sitting in my sent folder
for 	nearly three hours and has not shown up in the list (another 		
	problem with my F7 setup?)


    My problem affects many programs.  So far as I can tell they're all
programs that use pam (i.e pup, the system-config-firewall thingie).
Anyway, I can run the programs, but (in the case of the firewall thing)
it will not save nor actually use the settings I choose.

    Pup on the other hand acts very strangely!  If I attempt to alter
the package selection list it seems to deselect whatever package I
select, until I select another package then that package is re-checked
and the second package is unchecked  (though I can't be sure that it is
actually deselected as I haven't tried running it).

    Not sure this is related, but pup and yum also also do not show any
new packages until I run a yum clean metadata (forcing a download of the
metadata).

I've (of course) looked at Bugzilla, but couldn't come up with a
suitable search to find anything (at all) :-)
using bog-simple i386 which I've rarely had any issues with Red-hat nor
Fedora nor any other distro I've tried.  Any help in rounding this up
would be appreciated.

Scott

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