Updating to new minor version gives errors for my current running kernel instead of the one being installed

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

A kernel update results in the following errors:

mktemp: cannot make temp dir /tmp/initrd.v26218: No space left on device
Error creating temporaries.  Try again
mkinitrd failed
error: %post(kernel-2.6.18-308.13.1.el5.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
mktemp: cannot make temp dir /tmp/weak-modules.b32330: No space left on device

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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