output from emerge is attached.
Created attachment 3382 [details] output from emerge mtr
# gcc --version 2.95.3 # grep -v # /etc/make.conf GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.sunsite.dk/gentoo http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" USE="mmx sse apm pcmcia pnp trusted gphoto2 cups slp X opengl xv kde qt qtmt arts evo sdl gd gif jpeg png tiff avi mpeg quicktime alsa dvd xmms oggvorbis flash encode ipv6 pam ssl crypt imap ldap tcpd mozilla mozirc spell truetype xml xml2 pdflib perl berkdb mysql postgres odbc innodb gdbm afs" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-mcpu=i686 -O2 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=i686 -O2 -pipe" # emerge --version Portage 2.0.28 # epm -q glibc glibc-2.2.5-r5
16:37 <tange> # ls -l /usr/lib/libresolv.so 16:37 <tange> ls: /usr/lib/libresolv.so: No such file or directory 16:37 <tange> Now that is pretty bad 16:37 <j2ee> mmh 16:37 <j2ee> sexybit sbin # ldd mtr 16:37 <j2ee> libresolv.so.2 => /lib/libresolv.so.2 (0x4001d000) 16:37 <j2ee> in fact .. according to our irc session .. you're unable to find 'libresolv.so' and you've glibc -r5 installed. So, this isn't a bug mtr-related. This will avoid wasting time to track down a mtr-related problem.
ln -s /lib/libresolv.so.2 /usr/bin/libresolv.so solved the issue. Somehow emerge glibc does not install that symlink.