On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 13:15 +0300, 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 I ran into this during the middle of devel between alpha and beta. What I found out, was when doing any kind of major update like above, just boot into run level 3 first and then run the upgrade. That way X or anything else doesn't try to restart or anything and interrupt the update and cause problems like you experienced. I know it *shouldn't* and hopefully that gets fixed, but in mean time I would recommend doing major updates/upgrades in run level 3. -- Mike Chambers Madisonville, KY Fedora Project - Bugzapper, Tester, User, etc.. miketc302@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
