Re: [gentoo-server] can't boot anymore!

[Davide Cittaro]

Hi all and thanks for many answers. Apparently none of them solve my  
problem, I still get stuck at boot, before entering in runlevel 3.
I've also reinstalled a system from scratch and it doesn't work. I  
have the hint that everything is related with hostname resolving. As  
an example, when I chroot from a livecd I cannot run any command  
(except for cat, touch and few others) so I can't even ls directories.  
If I delete the /etc/hosts file I get everything working.
Yesterday, when I've was investigating, I had udevd that crashes.  
Running with strace I see that it segfaults after reading /etc/hosts.  
deleting it makes it crash later on and, with strace, I can see a  
continous attempt to resolve the hostname by address... Can this be  
the reason why I have all these problems? Did anybody have a similar  
problem?

d


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