On 07:44 Wed 19 Oct     , Rumen Yotov wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 13:47 +1000, Dave Oxley wrote:
> > I have just run 'emerge --update --deep --newuse world' on 2 of my 
> > Gentoo machines as I do every few days. This upgraded my udev from 
> > 068-r1 to 070. Neither machine will now boot. I've been investigating 
> > why on my server as it is most important that I get this machine up and 
> > running ASAP.
> > During boot I get the following error:
> > /sbin/rc: line 93:  1062 Segmentation fault      /sbin/udevstart
> > Then when it gets to checking root filesystem it reports /dev/sda3 is 
> > missing and drops me to a filesystem repair console.
> > Dave.

> Hi,
> Don't think it's a problem with udev-0.70, running it for a day or two.
> Maybe a hardware failure or try previous version (0.68), hope you have a
> binary package of it if you can't emerge it again. Useful sometimes.
> Boot with a LiveCD (gentoo) and re-emerge udev-0.68-rX or just install a
> binary package of it. If emerge/portage isn't working unpack it at /
> (root) dir, ignore warning about extra data at the end of archive.
> HTH.Rumen

I've had the same problem, it's been reported in b.g.o. See:

    http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109789


I was able to boot using a "gentoo=noudev" option. The newest best guess on
the problem involves the gcc2.patch.

Guess I'll try going back to earlier udev 'til it gets fixed.

Bill Roberts