updated gentoo and now my box won't finish booting

[gimp2x]

I updated gentoo and now my box stops booting after "starting cupsd"

i don't think it's a cupsd problem, but help me out here...this is my main server and its very frustrating, it starts networking but not SSH, so i can't get in remotely, it also does'nt start iptables so i am having lots of problems

and i'd really like to know why it tried to install gcc3.2 and broke gcc for me? i don't think it's very considerate to implement a broken portage tree...not very server friendly

[fifo]

I have no idea why it's not booting normally, but presumably you can get at least a partially working box by booting in "single" mode, and starting the most important services manually.

The update world feature isn't really designed to used blindly with production servers. You should always use the --pretend option first and, especially if it wants to update something really important such as glibc or gcc, then proceed with caution. Most of the time there won't be any problems, but with the amount of software, and the almost unlimited number of possible configurations, there's always the potential that something might break.

[rtn]