Somebody in the thread at some point said:
Anyone else seeing depmod segfault with the latest Fedora 7 kernel?
Every time it runs, it segfaults.
I ran it through strace, but this is what it shows before dying:
The strace just shows it peering into directories and then closing the
handle.
If you install the debuginfo RPM
# yum --enablerepo=fedora-debuginfo install module-init-tools-debuginfo
and gdb
# yum install gdb
and run it through gdb
# gdb --args depmod -a
... blah blah...
(gdb) run
and see if you get a nice backtrace
-Andy