Description of problem: Building a vanilla 2.6.16-rc5 and doing a "make install" crashes grubby Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mkinitrd-5.0.28-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Build kernel 2. "make install" 3. Actual results: ... if [ -r System.map -a -x /sbin/depmod ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map 2.6.16-rc5; fi sh /usr/src/linux-2.6.git/arch/i386/boot/install.sh 2.6.16-rc5 arch/i386/boot/bzImage System.map "/boot" *** glibc detected *** /sbin/grubby: munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer: 0xbfebf4f0 *** ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_free+0x17b)[0x5783ef] /sbin/grubby[0x804fd12] /sbin/grubby[0x804fe73] /sbin/grubby[0x8050c9e] /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc)[0x5267a4] /sbin/grubby[0x804a001] ======= Memory map: ======== 004f4000-0050d000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 102425 /lib/ld-2.3.90.so 0050d000-0050e000 r-xp 00018000 fd:00 102425 /lib/ld-2.3.90.so 0050e000-0050f000 rwxp 00019000 fd:00 102425 /lib/ld-2.3.90.so 00511000-00634000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 102472 /lib/libc-2.3.90.so 00634000-00637000 r-xp 00122000 fd:00 102472 /lib/libc-2.3.90.so 00637000-00638000 rwxp 00125000 fd:00 102472 /lib/libc-2.3.90.so 00638000-0063b000 rwxp 00638000 00:00 0 00dcf000-00dda000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 102639 /lib/libgcc_s-4.1.0-20060219.so.1 00dda000-00ddb000 rwxp 0000a000 fd:00 102639 /lib/libgcc_s-4.1.0-20060219.so.1 00fb9000-00fba000 r-xp 00fb9000 00:00 0 [vdso] 08048000-08089000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 33229 /sbin/grubby 08089000-0808c000 rw-p 00041000 fd:00 33229 /sbin/grubby 0808c000-08094000 rw-p 0808c000 00:00 0 09ffa000-0a056000 rw-p 09ffa000 00:00 0 [heap] b7fa9000-b7faa000 rw-p b7fa9000 00:00 0 b7fc1000-b7fc2000 rw-p b7fc1000 00:00 0 bfead000-bfec2000 rw-p bfead000 00:00 0 [stack] /sbin/new-kernel-pkg: line 89: 5905 Aborted /sbin/grubby --add-kernel=$bootPrefix/$kernelName-$version $INITRD --copy-default $makedefault --title "$title" ${mbkernel:+--add-multiboot="$mbkernel"} ${mbargs:+--mbargs="$mbargs"} --args="root=$rootdevice $kernargs" --remove-kernel="TITLE=$title" Expected results: Installed kernel... Additional info: Downgraded to 5.0.27-1 and it works fine.
Similar junk got spewed when updating my x86_64 box, so this is not i386 only.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 183010 ***