http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-quickinstall.xml following is corrupt: wget http://gentoo.osuosl.org/snapshots/portage-latest.tar.bz2 used: portage-20070601.tar.bz2 livecd env.d # cat /etc/env.d/05gcc PATH="/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.1" ROOTPATH="/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.1" MANPATH="/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/man" INFOPATH="/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/info" LDPATH="/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1" GCC_SPECS="" livecd / # env-update && source /etc/profile >>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... dircolors: relocation error: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: symbol _dl_starting_up, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file ld-linux.so.2 with link time reference grep: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3.4' not found (required by grep) grep: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3.4' not found (required by grep) grep: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3.4' not found (required by grep) grep: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3.4' not found (required by grep) dircolors: relocation error: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: symbol _dl_starting_up, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file ld-linux.so.2 with link time reference grep: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3.4' not found (required by grep) grep: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3.4' not found (required by grep) id: relocation error: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: symbol _dl_starting_up, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file ld-linux.so.2 with link time reference bash: [: =: unary operator expected /sbin/consoletype: relocation error: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: symbol _dl_starting_up, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file ld-linux.so.2 with link time reference cut: relocation error: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: symbol _dl_starting_up, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file ld-linux.so.2 with link time reference cut: relocation error: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: symbol _dl_starting_up, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file ld-linux.so.2 with link time reference livecd / # ll ls: relocation error: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: symbol _dl_starting_up, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file ld-linux.so.2 with link time reference Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.see description 2. 3. Actual Results: can't run env-update inorder to chroot to run emerge
Uhm; there's no way a portage snapshot could kill your glibc. Wipe everything, start from scratch and make sure the stage you've downloaded has a *correct* md5sum (i.e., is not corrupt) before unpacking.