I am (was) getting this as well on a new amd64 install (zotac ION n330) - it appears there is a problem with certain glibc 32bit libraries - there is a bug about it. Upgraded glibc and most things are now happy - but I still cant build gcc.
BillK On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 10:50 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 12 February 2010 10:54:53 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hi, Gentoo, > > > > My new Gentoo box has become unusably unstable. > > > > The first sign was when the compiler threw a segfault whilst emerging > > the xfce window manager. I "solved" this by emerging Openbox instead. > > > > Then I got another compiler segfault whilst emerging firefox (yes, I > > know there's a binary for this). > > > > everything you mention below is indicative of failing hardware, especially > RAM > closely followed by PSU. > > Swap them out with known good items and test thoroughly *before* doing > anything else. > > > > > > > > > Then, on somebody's advice (not fully understood), I did > > > > # emerge -e gcc > > > > , to try and get a consistent working gcc. This crashed. I repeated > > the invocation, and it crashed more quickly. :-( > > > > At this point, I thought, just reload "everything" from the stage3, with > > > > # cd / ; bunzip2 /stage3-amd64-20100121.tar.gz > > > > , which didn't help either. I emerged gentoolkit, to see if I could get > > some handle on the mess. Then > > > > # revdep-rebuild -p > > > > threw a segfault. > > > > At this point, I'm feeling a bit sad. My rough guess is that there's > > some conflict somewhere between 32-bit and 64-bit code, and some of my > > USE flags are inconsistent with some others, or the kernel, or something > > like that. > > > > One other thing I remember vaguely is that early on, some emerge told me > > I had to "revdep-rebuild" something. I wasn't able to do this through > > not yet knowing what "revdep-rebuild" meant, and not having any file of > > that name on my system. Could this be the cause? > > > > Finally, is there a way of reloading/rebuilding ALL the executables > > onto/on my system without discarding all my painfully wrought config > > files and without portage getting confused? > > > > Thanks in advance for the help! > -- William Kenworthy <bi...@iinet.net.au> Home in Perth!
