User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060820 Firefox/1.5.0.5 Build Identifier: I have successfully used genkernel without bootsplash. When using genkernel with the --bootsplash option, the initrd phase produces the following error messages: * initrd: >> Initializing... /bin/tar: : Cannot open: No such file or directory /bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now /bin/tar: Child returned status 2 /bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors * ERROR: Could not extract udev binary cache! Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. invoke genkernel, using the --bootsplash option and targets 'all' or 'initrd' Actual Results: The initrd phase produces the following error messages: * initrd: >> Initializing... /bin/tar: : Cannot open: No such file or directory /bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now /bin/tar: Child returned status 2 /bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors * ERROR: Could not extract udev binary cache! Expected Results: Produced a working initrd with bootsplash support. Gentoo Base System version 1.12.4 *** Deprecated use of action 'info', use '--info' instead Portage 2.1-r2 (hardened/x86/2.6, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.16-hardened-r11 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-hardened-r11 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) MP 1900+ app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-mp -O2 -pipe -funroll-loops" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-mp -O2 -pipe -funroll-loops" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo http://gentoo.ccccom.com ftp://gentoo.ccccom.com http://gentoo.binarycompass.org http://gentoo.osuosl.org/" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage//packages/x86/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage/" SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bootsplash bzip2 cdrom crypt ctype cups dba dlloader dvd elibc_glibc emboss encode escreen esd ethereal exif expat fam fbcon foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect fortran ftp gd gdbm gif glut glx gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal hardened hardenedphp howl idn imap imlib ithreads java javascript jikes jpeg kde kernel_linux lcms libg++ libwww mad memlimit mikmod mng motif mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail moznoxft mozsvg mp3 mpeg ncurses nfs nls no-old-linux nptl nsplugin ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl pic png posix postgres python qt quicktime rdesktop readline reiserfs samba sdl session simplexml slang soap sockets spell spl ssl tcltk tcpd tidy tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts udev userland_GNU userlocales vorbis x86 xml xml2 xmms xorg xscreensaver xsl xv zlib input_devices_mouse input_devices_keyboard" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Created attachment 95615 [details] genkernel.log
Are you meaning to use --bootplash and not --gensplash?
This should be fixed in CVS, as we're now making sure that we don't try to pull in udev in the initrd.
Fixed in 3.4.1, thanks!