Segmentation Violations/Seg faults on rooting FS? *solved.*

[melts]

I'm in an awful spot of bother with a Segementation Violation on bootup of my gateway server.

I can't supply the error message verbatim since i'm currently running the hardware with the gentoo liveCD (so i'm in link2 atm posting this, its rather painful) but I know it was a Segmentation Violation after the kernel frees memory, and before INIT.
The line reads similar to below -
Segmentation Violation at (nil!) waiting for 30 seconds.

From what i know this is about with the kernel sets root to the root partition (/dev/hda3 for me).

Before this happened the server ran for months ok, and i had just completed a rather big emerge world task, which seg faulted partway through and *anything* i entered into my SSH session would also seg fault (ls, top, cd...). I rebooted to have this Segementation Violation error.

Now why i think it has something to do with the filesystem - I've booted into the liveCD (after running memtest, passed) and fscked my partitions and mounted them. I enter chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash and get a Seg fault straight up. Nothing else i do seg faults so far, but that does. I haven't figured it out at all so here i am posting this. I'm running ReiserFS on all partitions except /boot, that runs ext2. All the partitions checked out with fsck.reiserfs --check, though i guess i'll do a rebuild while i wait for replies in hope it fixes it. I'm running a 2.6.10 kernel and i've never had a problem before. I did update sysvinit in my emerge session, however it was "dev-tc-tlk?"/expect that first seg faulted, (about two thirds in, compiled sysvinit and glibc sucessfully, though glibc was completed after sysvinit and it was a downgrade...). All in all i have no idea whats going on. Anyone got any ideas?
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[melts]

Ok, well i figured it out, at least what was happening and temp fix.
seems that ld-linux.so.2 and probably others weren't ok after emerging glibc

to fix it i copied all the libs from the livecd /lib to my lib and everything got going. I then tried to merge glibc and it killed itself again.
I'm going to try and find a thread about glibc problems like this or start a new one since no-one seemed to care about this one

hope if anyone else has this problem that this helps em.
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[TheRAt]

Have you checked you RAM with a memtest from the liveCD? Could be responsible for your incorrect compile behaviour.. Also have your checked the bugs website to see if the problem is listed there?
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