System broken after updating glibc

[DrGreenthumb]

Hi
I have tryed to update glibc on my amd64 system.
The compilation went fine but while installation emerge failed. After that i couldn't start any programms.
If i try the boot the system it stops at:
Booting initramfs
chroot: cannot execute /bin/sh: no such file or directory
kernelpanic - not syncing: attemped to kill init

I have tried to boot from a live cd and then chroot to my harddisk but chroot failed too.
/bin/sh exists and it is a link to /bin/bash

I have no idea what to do now :(

[jamapii]

I think booting from a recent livecd, mounting all the partitions of your system, then

ROOT=/path/to/your/system emerge --oneshot glibc

could undo the damage.

Your glibc update has probably gone wrong in such a way that it didn't even install important parts of glibc, but the old version has been uninstalled. Now when you execute /bin/bash, it looks for glibc, and THIS results in "no such file or directory". I've seen it before.[/code]

[DrGreenthumb]

thanks for your fast answer

I have mounted my harddisks and tried:

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 ROOT=/mnt/gentoo/ /mnt/gentoo/usr/bin/emerge --oneshot glibc

but emerge produces an error message for each line. import: command not found and so on ....
So i have changed the first line to #!/mnt/gentoo/usr/bin/python but then python fails as no libpython can be found.
Setting $ROOT to my system dir did not help :(

Another interesting thing might be

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ldd /mnt/gentoo/bin/bash

There is no missing library!?