Bind Error with New Kernel

[Gordon Messmer]

edwarner99 at yahoo.com wrote:
> 
> "ROOTDIR=/var/named/chroot" wasn't there. As I said,
> it never was. It was never modified by me or bind, but
> ran ok until I upgraded from FC3 to FC4.

That line is normally added by the "bind-chroot" package.  If that 
package is installed, then the line "ROOTDIR=/var/named/chroot" was 
definitely present when the service was working as expected.  If you 
configured the chroot using some means other than installing the 
"bind-chroot" package, then the changes you made to configure the chroot 
were probably overwritten by the upgrade.

> I put "ROOTDIR=/var/named/chroot" in the file and
> seems to work now.
> 
> What action caused bind to over write
> /etc.sysconfig/named?

Look for rpmsave files which may help you understand what was modified:

find /etc -name '*.rpmsave'