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 -- Register Linux User 353844 http://counter.li.org/ --