[gentoo-dev] eth0 died after emerge binutils

[gentoo-dev] eth0 died after emerge binutils

[Craig Joly]

Hi,
I'm having a big problem and can't get any help on IRC.
    emerge rsync
    emerge --pretend --update system
Only one thing to upgrade - binutils to 2.13.90.0.18.
    emerge --update system
Emerge went fine.
    emerge --pretend --update world
    emerge --update world
Dies with host not found.  I realize there's no network connection.
ifconfig shows eth0 with the inet addr line missing.
    /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart
It shuts down and won't restart.
dmesg shows "eth0: 0 multicast blocks dropped" every time I try to
start the network.

Our network uses dhcpcd if that gives any useful information.
I can't see why binutils is affecting the network but it seems to be.
I can't downgrade to a previous binutils because I cleared out
/usr/portage/distfiles since the last time it was upgraded and I don't
have a working network connection.

Any help that does not involve re-installing Gentoo would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks,
Craig Joly

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