wooooah horsey, whoah! OK...
1. I could have deleted the line by myself, but I didn't because I've never touched /etc/host.conf so far, and because it belonged to glibc, I didn't want to stuff around with it. My system is working, even though I get this "error" message, so I left it as is until I was sure. 2. Yes I am running an unstable system (~x86), and that includes glibc, gcc, kernels, and every other package I have installed. I am aware that from time to time this may cause problems, but I do it for two reasons: a) I like to help as much as I can in detecting and reporting bugs before they make it to x86 (or other archs), because even though I'm employed as one, I'm not much of a programmer :P b) I like having new features and fixes sooner rather than later. 3. Thanks for the comments, especially from Rumen quoting the einfo lines - I only have warnings mailed to me so I missed that one. 4. I think I will file a bug - IMHO there should have been a new /etc/host.conf, which would have then been labelled ._cfg_host.conf (or whatever) and I would have resolved the problem myself. If it got me worried, it's going to get a lot more people worried when it hits x86. cya, -- Iain Buchanan <iain at netspace dot net dot au> ... though his invention worked superbly -- his theory was a crock of sewage from beginning to end. -- Vernor Vinge, "The Peace War" -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list