update kernel : mkinitrd failed on permission

[Bruno Costacurta]

Hello to All,
got the following mkinitrd errors when updating kernel (via yum)
Many thanks for any clue.

yum update
(...)
kernel-smp.i686                          2.6.17-1.2174_FC5      updates
kernel-smp-devel.i686                    2.6.17-1.2174_FC5      updates
(...)
=============================================================================
 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
 kernel-smp              i686       2.6.17-1.2174_FC5  updates            15 M
 kernel-smp-devel        i686       2.6.17-1.2174_FC5  updates           4.5 M

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      2 Package(s)
Update       0 Package(s)
Remove       0 Package(s)
Total download size: 20 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Installing: kernel-smp-devel             ######################### [1/2]
  Installing: kernel-smp                   ######################### [2/2]
/sbin/mkinitrd: line 622: /bin/grep: Permission denied
/sbin/mkinitrd: line 622: /bin/grep: Permission denied
/sbin/mkinitrd: line 166: /bin/egrep: Permission denied
/sbin/mkinitrd: line 166: /bin/egrep: Permission denied
/sbin/mkinitrd: line 166: /bin/egrep: Permission denied
/sbin/mkinitrd: line 665: /bin/grep: Permission denied
/sbin/mkinitrd: line 682: /bin/grep: Permission denied
/sbin/mkinitrd: line 166: /bin/egrep: Permission denied
/sbin/mkinitrd: line 166: /bin/egrep: Permission denied
/sbin/mkinitrd: line 166: /bin/egrep: Permission denied
/sbin/mkinitrd: line 166: /bin/egrep: Permission denied
/sbin/mkinitrd: line 166: /bin/egrep: Permission denied
/sbin/mkinitrd: line 730: /bin/mktemp: Permission denied
/sbin/mkinitrd: line 731: /bin/mktemp: Permission denied
Error creating temporaries.  Try again
mkinitrd failed
error: %post(kernel-smp-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.i686) scriptlet failed, exit status 
1

Installed: kernel-smp.i686 0:2.6.17-1.2174_FC5 kernel-smp-devel.i686 
0:2.6.17-1.2174_FC5
Complete!


Bye,
Bruno

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