Description of problem:

Ran "ssh hawk yum -y upgrade" to upgrade hawk.  This installed a new kernel. 
The initrd for this kernel was broken (didn't load scsi driver it needed to boot).

avcs: (duplicates eliminated)

Dec 19 09:12:44 hawk kernel: audit(1166544764.454:5656): avc:  denied  { read
write } for  pid=28625 comm="depmod" name="[6103353]" dev=sockfs ino=6103353
scontext=root:system_r:depmod_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
tcontext=root:system_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=unix_stream_socket
Dec 19 09:12:45 hawk kernel: audit(1166544765.374:5658): avc:  denied  { read
write } for  pid=28626 comm="mkinitrd" name="[6103353]" dev=sockfs ino=6103353
scontext=root:system_r:bootloader_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
tcontext=root:system_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=unix_stream_socket
Dec 19 09:12:56 hawk kernel: audit(1166544776.327:5660): avc:  denied  {
setfscreate } for  pid=29270 comm="cp"
scontext=root:system_r:bootloader_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
tcontext=root:system_r:bootloader_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=process

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
selinux-policy-2.4.6-7.fc6


Ran mkinitrd by hand in ssh login session and that worked.