Very odd problem involving mkinitd.. anyone have any troubleshooting suggestions?

[Jeff Spaleta]

Okay for the last couple of days.. the kernel installs on this rawhide
box have been hanging up during install.. via rpm or yum... I have to
break out of the process.

I've traced it down to mkinitrd in the postinstall script of the kernel package.

mkinitrd hanging but I dont know why and I don't know how to
troubleshoot it any further than this.

For example after i
 rpm -ivh --noscripts
/var/cache/yum/development/packages/kernel-2.6.14-1.1660_FC5.i686.rpm

to get the 1660 kernel installed  I run the postinstall script items manually
/usr/sbin/module_upgrade 2.6.14-1.1660_FC5
seems to work as expected

the new-kernel-pkg script however fails to return after several minutes.
Stepping it through it I finally get to to mkinitrd step which i do
manually with verbosity on:

/sbin/mkinitrd -v --allow-missing -f
/boot/initrd-2.6.14-1.1660_FC5.img 2.6.14-1.1660_FC5
Creating initramfs
Looking for deps of module ide-disk

----it just hangs there-----

Anyone have any clue exactly why this is screwing up on my system?
As far as i can tell none of the kernels i have installed actually
have an ide-disk module so I'm not sure my mkinitrd is doing this
check.

Full disclosure time:
uname -r
2.6.14-1.1656_FC5smp

modules.conf
alias eth0 tulip
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
options snd-card-0 index=0
install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-emu10k1 &&
/usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
remove snd-emu10k1 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; };
/sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-emu10k1
alias usb-controller ohci-hcd
alias usb-controller1 ehci-hcd


-jef"mmmmmm rawhide"spaleta