On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Paul Hartman
<paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com<paul.hartman%2Bgentoo@gmail.com>
> wrote:

> I've always been curious about something in emerge --info's output:
>
> $ emerge --info
> Portage 2.2_rc12 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2,
> glibc-2.8_p20080602-r0, 2.6.27-gentoo-r1 x86_64)
> =================================================================
> System uname:
> Linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r1-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_CPU_6600_@
> _2.40GHz-with-glibc2.2.5
> Timestamp of tree: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:31:02 +0000
>
> Why does it show the glibc-2.8 on the second line but glibc2.2.5 on the
> fifth?
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
>
>
My best guess is that your kernel was compiled by a toolchain that was
running on glibc2.2.5

See what happens if you recompile the kernel under the newer toolchain.