Somebody in the thread at some point said: > Anyone else seeing depmod segfault with the latest Fedora 7 kernel? > Every time it runs, it segfaults. > > I ran it through strace, but this is what it shows before dying: The strace just shows it peering into directories and then closing the handle. If you install the debuginfo RPM # yum --enablerepo=fedora-debuginfo install module-init-tools-debuginfo and gdb # yum install gdb and run it through gdb # gdb --args depmod -a ... blah blah... (gdb) run and see if you get a nice backtrace -Andy