coreutils is installed, cannot su -, and cannot add user still running as root

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 17:17 +0100, Bill Crawford wrote:
> On 07/04/2008, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> >  > I have run the updates on this machine, the fedora 7
> >  > machine updated to rawhide.  I cannot add users and
> >  > still cannot add users to troubleshoot errors.
> ...
> >  I updated to today's rawhide report, and I get the
> >  following error message
> >
> >  *** removed to save space ****
> ...
> >  How can I fix this issue?
> 
> A suggestion (not able to try myself as I no longer have an F7 machine
> to try) is, make sure you use "upgrade" rather than "update" as the
> yum command. I usually attempt to upgrade yum first when doing this
> sort of thing, but that will probably pull in updates to python and
> various libraries anyway, and before you know it you'll be upgrading
> half the system anyway :o)).

there's no distinction b/t those commands anymore. upgrade/update do the
same thing unless you've gone out of your way to disable obsoletes in
your yum.conf

-sv