Description of problem: The "Requires: pam" of coreutils is inadequate -- /etc/pam.d/su does an 'include' of postlogin, but /etc/pam.d/postlogin did not exist until pam-1.1.3-7 . Without /etc/pam.d/postlogin, /bin/su will fail: su: cannot not open session: Permission denied with an error message in /var/log/secure: ... su: PAM _pam_load_conf_file: unable to open /etc/pam.d/postlogin So the requires line in th spec file should be: Requires: pam >= 1.1.3-7 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): coreutils-8.12-2.fc16.i686 (Note: Same problem exists in util-linux-2.20-1.fc16.i686; a separate report has been filed against util-linux .) This is not likely to happen on a standard spin. And during OS install, /etc/pam.d/postlogin is replaced by a symlink to a generated postlogin-ac . But by examining the following, it is apparent that coreutils really does need postlogin, and that postlogin first appeared in pam-1.1.3-7: $ grep postlogin /etc/pam.d/su $ rpm -q --changelog pam-1.1.4-4.fc16 | grep -B1 postlogin $ rpmls pam-1.1.4-4.fc16 | grep postlogin
Just to be sure ... as you mention "This is not likely to happen on a standard spin.", you don't expect F16 primary arch update just for this - so just commit&build in F16&Rawhide with fixed requirements should be fine, right?
Anyway, thanks, versioned requires added in coreutils-8.12-4.fc16 and coreutils -8.14-3.fc17, closing RAWHIDE. If you think that F16 update in bodhi is required, feel free to write it here, I'll do it - but I don't think it makes sense just for fixing requires (which are usually ok, if you have up2date packages).