See if this helps at all. From your console, re-configure your system, changing one setting, then letting it reboot. When it comes back up, reconfigure it again and change the setting back and let it reboot again.
You could probabably do a
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event post-install or post-upgrade
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event reboot
and accomplish the same, I just don't know what post event to use.
JB