Bug 430572

Description of problem:

The install completes but panics on boot (as indicated in RHTS log
http://rhts.lab.boston.redhat.com/cgi-bin/rhts/test_log.cgi?id=1781773).

Waiting for driver initialization.
Scanning and configuring dmraid supported devices
Scanning logical volumes
  Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while...
  Found volume group "VolGroup00" using metadata type lvm2
Activating logical volumes
  /proc/misc: No entry for device-mapper found
  Is device-mapper driver missing from kernel?
  Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver.
  0 Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
logical volume(s ) in volume grou

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

RHEL5.2-Server-20080117.1
 * kernel-2.6.18.62.el5.ppc64
 * anaconda-11.1.2.87.1.ppc
 * mkinitrd-5.1.19.6.19.ppc64


How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install using default lvm layout
  
Actual results:

Panic's on boot 

Expected results:


Additional info:

$ diff -y -W50 r5u1-initrd-cpio-it r5u2-initrd-cpio-it

lib                                             lib
lib/dm-mirror.ko                              <
lib/dm-mod.ko                                 <
lib/dm-snapshot.ko                            <
lib/dm-zero.ko                                <
lib/ehci-hcd.ko                                 lib/ehci-hcd.ko


Running /sbin/new-kernel-pkg by hand shows that grubby is segfaulting 

++ echo -/boot/initrd-2.6.18-62.el5.img
++ sed 's/\/boot.*img//'
+ initrdnum=-
+ '[' - = - ']'
+ initrdnum=
+ /sbin/grubby --add-kernel=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-62.el5 --initrd
/boot/initrd-2.6.18-62.el5.img --copy-default --make-default --title
2.6.18-62.el5 '--args=root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 '
--remove-kernel=TITLE=2.6.18-62.el5 --yaboot
/sbin/new-kernel-pkg: line 90:  1930 Segmentation fault      (core dumped)
$grubby --add-kernel=$bootPrefix/$kernelName-$version $INITRD --copy-default
$makedefault --title "$version$initrdnum"
${mbkernel:+--add-multiboot="$mbkernel"} ${mbargs:+--mbargs="$mbargs"}
--args="root=$rootdevice $kernargs" --remove-kernel="TITLE=$version$initrdnum"
--$liloFlag
+ '[' -n yes ']'
+ '[' -n '' ']'
+ '[' '!' -x /sbin/ybin ']'

Attempting to use gdb on the resulting core file ...