Re: ES3 update 8 has severe problems with "pvm"

On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 11:33 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On 7/27/06, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Lawrence Houston wrote:
> >
> 
> > We ran a up2date on a few of machines before seeing this thread and
> > stopping the work.  In addition to stopped daemons and missing symlinks,
> > we found that some system accounts in /etc/passwd were removed and _not_
> > replaced:
> >
> >     named
> >     rpcuser
> >     rpcuser
> >     nfsnobody
> >     nfsnobody
> >     nscd
> >     nscd
> >
> 
> Basically the up2date crashed and so a lot of %pre were done and a lot
> of %post were not done.
> 
> 
> 
> 

I only got burned on four systems. On those, I restored /var/lib/rpm
(after moving aside the old one), rpm -e pvm, updated again, cleaned up
various .rpm{save,orig,new} files, made sure essentials were set to
start on boot (nfs, sshd), rebooted and everything looks good. 

Still makes you wonder how this can happen though.

tjb
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