I decided to upgrade my current kernel (a vanilla 2.4.24) to the gentoo-sources (2.4.25-gentoo), everything when ok with the install, no complaints. I used a couple of minor modifications (removed network devices, selected particular processor). No complaints occured on the reboot. I when around the system quite happily, then disaster. I tried to use emerge and got a "Segmentation fault". A little deeper searching I discovered that any binaries linked against libstdc++ did the same. So I rebooted back into my vanilla kernel and, to my suprise, no Segmentation faults. So again I tried, this time accepting all the defaults and not tweaking anything. But the error repeated itself. Then I updated the whole system (world as well). Everything update to date and gleeming I tried again, guess what. So again I rebooted and rebuilt, this time with genkernel, still there. I browsed the current bugs here on bugs.gentoo.org but couldn't find anything similar. I tried: ldconfig env-update source /etc/profile based on reading of another user bug that sounded similar, but nothing. So after all this I decided to go back to vanilla-sources. I rebuilt the kernel (vanilla-2.4.25) rebooted and everything is fine, not nasty seg fault in site. System was as update to date as 13/04/04 ....
Does gentoo-sources-2.4.26 have any issues with your configuration?
I tried vanilla-2.4.26 and it worked find, no problems. After this I stepped up to the 2.6 kernel, so I have yet to attempt the install of 2.4.26-gentoo. I will trial it tonight/tommorrow.
Ok, 2.4.26-gentoo-r1 successfully installed and running without any problems.
Sounds good
