Gentoo died after an update world

Wes · n00b Joined: 14 Jun 2002 Posts: 28

I recently installed Gentoo 2.4-rc1. After doing an "emerge --update world", I couldn't run any programs. Every time I tried, I got a "segmentation fault." So I rebooted, and got a "segmentation fault" message when I tried to log in.

So... I booted from a "live gentoo" cdrom, mounted the partition where I have my gentoo installation, and tried to do a chroot. Got a "segmentation fault" again.

In desperation, I unpacked the original stage 3 tarball, writing over my installation, did a bit of fine-tuning, and rebooted. That worked, and so far everything *seems* fine.

I'm sure it's too late to figure out why Gentoo died on me. But for future reference, I'd like to know which programs/packages were producing the segmentation fault. (It certainly wasn't the kernel, because I am still running the same one.)

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Wes

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Perhaps gcc was upgraded during the emerge and caused some problems. Just a guess though.
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rac · Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2002 5:31 pm Post subject:

glibc is another thing that can hurt a whole system pretty badly if it gets messed up.
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