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The internal server used as a yum repository runs EL6, and it servers EL6 and EL7 (read: CentOS) yum repos. An admin tried installing mkisofs, which wanted to come by default from the c7-base repository. It also wanted to upgrade bash and glibc. Well, installing a post-usrmerge bash (CentOS 7+) on CentOS6 caused all sorts of havoc. I had to load a rescue iso, boot, and copy /usr/bin/bash and /usr/bin/sh to the correct locations. Then my system would actually boot again. I was getting an interesting error:

init: Failed to spawn rcS pre-start process: unable to execute: No such file or directory
init: Failed to spawn rcS post-stop process: unable to execute: No such file or directory

Also, kernel options rghb and quiet are really annoying and I always disable them. So, the moral of the story is: always be very careful running yum on a yum repo server. Double-check what repos your package will pull in.