I recently ran ./install-updates on about 2 or so RH6.2 servers. After the rpm rpm was updates, each and every machine would just site while trying to upgrade 'kernel' I would get three lines of: kernel #################### kernel #################### kernel #################### and system CPU would be abour 99%. When I would (after an hour) kill the process, the screen would fill with *.so no found (where *=the name of the files which would fill several screen fulls) issuing: rpm --rebuilddb would allow the next issuance of ./install- updates to run to complettion. Today, I rebooted one of the server after I physcilally moved it to a new rack. When it comes up I get an: modprobe: modprobe: can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.2/14- 5.0/modules.dep. This is correct as that direcotry no longer seems to exist. Oddly this server ran ever since the upgrade though I never did reboot. The only commonalities between all the servers is, They are all RH62 with the previous update CD being run on them, and they all have bastille-linux (wwwbastille-linux.org) haveing been run on them. (a security hardening script).
This was a bug in the updates CD. It should *never* upgrade the kernel; this has been fixed in more recent update CD cuts.