Description of problem: authconfig fails in minimal installation (%packages --nobase) # authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5 --update Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/authconfig", line 32, in <module> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '') File "/usr/lib/python2.5/locale.py", line 476, in setlocale return _setlocale(category, locale) locale.Error: unsupported locale setting Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): authconfig-5.4.2-1.fc9.i386 After glibc-common is installed the problem goes away, but I think absence of locale support shouldn't be a show stopper.
I don't think install without glibc-common can be fully working install. Also glibc rpm requires glibc-common. And does the setlocale() call fail even when the LANG is set to C?