Description of problem: After upgrade from FC4 to FC6, I am seeing this error. The avahi user is not found in /etc/passwd, and I cannot determine the proper home directory or whatever for it. Googling didn't turn anything up. [root@arctic ~]# grep avahi ~/upgrade.log Upgrading avahi - 0.6.11-6.fc6.i386 /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.67263: line 3: 1089 Segmentation fault /usr/sbin/useradd -c 'Avahi daemon' -u 70 -s /sbin/nologin -r -d '/' avahi 2>/dev/null warning: user avahi does not exist - using root warning: group avahi does not exist - using root Upgrading avahi-glib - 0.6.11-6.fc6.i386 Upgrading kdnssd-avahi - 0.1.3-0.1.20060713svn.fc6.i386 Upgrading avahi-devel - 0.6.11-6.fc6.i386 Upgrading avahi-qt3 - 0.6.11-6.fc6.i386 Upgrading kdnssd-avahi-devel - 0.1.3-0.1.20060713svn.fc6.i386 Upgrading avahi-compat-howl - 0.6.11-6.fc6.i386 libsepol.sepol_genbools_array: boolean avahi_disable_trans no longer in policy [root@arctic ~]# Well, there's the failed command during the upgrade. I'll add this user by hand then. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): [mjfrazer@arctic ~]$ rpm -qa | grep avahi avahi-qt3-0.6.11-6.fc6 kdnssd-avahi-devel-0.1.3-0.1.20060713svn.fc6 avahi-0.6.11-6.fc6 kdnssd-avahi-0.1.3-0.1.20060713svn.fc6 avahi-glib-0.6.11-6.fc6 avahi-devel-0.6.11-6.fc6 avahi-compat-howl-0.6.11-6.fc6 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
I did a yum upgrade from FC4 to FC6 and had the same problem.
This rather seems to problem in shadow-utils. Reassigning...
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I sort of gave up on Fedora as a desktop after the upgrade from 7 to 8 broke the xinerama support for my Radeon 7200 cards. So I bought a Mac. As such, I cannot really provide any more info. Sorry
Thanks for the update.