The pre installing script of newscache-1.2-0.6.rc6.fc9 (which is in Fedora 10 and rawhide) does not create the "news" user and group. Since the default /etc/passwd of Fedora 10 does not include the "news" account and the newscache run under the uid and gid of "news", this prevent it from starting properly. Something similar to the following code (borrowed from inn.spec) should be add to the %pre section of newscache.spec: > getent group news >/dev/null || groupadd -r news > getent passwd news >/dev/null || \ > useradd -r -g news -d /etc/news -s /sbin/nologin \ > -c "News server user" news PS. Without the "news" account, newscache will hang or segfault which could be another bug by itself.
newscache-1.2-0.7.rc6.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/newscache-1.2-0.7.rc6.fc10
newscache-1.2-0.7.rc6.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.