According to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SysVInitScript "SysV initscripts are no longer the default, they have been obsoleted by systemd unit files" See asalkeld's excellent work on doing this for nova and glance in bug #732689 and bug #734345 Note, swift is a little different - we'll need to support the initscript -> systemd migration in the %post scripts since it's not a new package. See: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ScriptletSnippets#Systemd Packages migrating to a systemd unit file from a SysV initscript
openstack-swift-1.4.6-1.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/openstack-swift-1.4.6-1.fc17
openstack-swift-1.4.6-1.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.