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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