Description of problem: Preinstall scriptlet contains the lines preinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh): getent group uucp >/dev/null || groupadd -g 14 -r uucp getent passwd uucp >/dev/null || \ useradd -r -u 10 -g uucp -d /var/spool/uucp \ -c "Uucp user" news exit 0 The username "news" is wrong, it should be "uucp". The effect is that the user "uucp" is not created. This entail other errors when an existing user "uucp" is expected. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): uucp-1.07-37.fc19.x86_64 How reproducible: Always.
Thanks, bad, bad cut&paste ... sorry for that, I'll make an update for this soon.
uucp-1.07-38.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/uucp-1.07-38.fc19
Package uucp-1.07-38.fc19: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 19 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing uucp-1.07-38.fc19' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-12249/uucp-1.07-38.fc19 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
uucp-1.07-38.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.