If I try to shutdown the system, after stopping net.lo, iptables and dbus it gets stuck in printing "hwclock: waiting for localmount" every 2-3 seconds. List of enabled services: ~ $ rc-update alsasound | boot inetd | default udev | sysinit hald | default syslog-ng | default ntpd | default root | boot xdm | default postfix | default dmesg | sysinit lvm | boot gpm | default git-daemon | default dbus | default killprocs | shutdown devfs | sysinit acpid | default savecache | shutdown atd | default bootmisc | boot hddtemp | default iptables | default procfs | boot postgresql | default avahi-dnsconfd | default apache2 | default vixie-cron | default localmount | boot swap | boot urandom | boot modules | boot nfs | default avahi-daemon | default fsck | boot hostname | boot local | default nonetwork netmount | default sysctl | boot consolefont | boot keymaps | boot mount-ro | shutdown mtab | boot termencoding | boot net.lo | boot device-mapper | boot NetworkManager | default cupsd | default Portage 2.2_rc19 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/developer, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r0, 2.6.26-tuxonice-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.26-tuxonice-r4-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_M_processor_1.73GHz-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 25 Dec 2008 14:15:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r8 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.3.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.26 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -g -march=pentium-m -funit-at-a-time -pipe" 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/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev /etc/udev/rules.d /lib/modules" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -g -march=pentium-m -funit-at-a-time -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps n" FEATURES="candy collision-protect cvs digest distlocks fixpackages multilib-strict parallel-fetch prelink preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox severe sfperms sign splitdebug strict stricter unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS=" http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo http://mirror.ing.unibo.it/gentoo http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo http://gentoo.osuosl.org" INSTALL_MASK="/usr/lib/debug/*" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1,--hash-style=gnu,--sort-common,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en ja" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--human-readable --progress" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/mm/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlays/layman/emacs /usr/local/overlays/layman/enlightenment /usr/local/overlays/layman/gentopia /usr/local/overlays/layman/sunrise /usr/local/overlays/paludis-extras /usr/local/overlays/flameeyes /usr/local/overlays/rbu /usr/local/overlays/soor /usr/local/overlays/gnome /home/hechee/lisp/gentoo-lisp-overlay /usr/local/overlays/ste" SYNC="rsync://rsync3.fr.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi adns afs alsa apache2 automount bash-completion berkdb bluetooth bzip2 cairo caps cdparanoia cdr cjk cli cracklib crypt cups curl dbus dga djvu dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread dvi eds emacs emboss encode evo exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg fftw flac fortran ftp fuse gd gdbm gif gmp gnome gnome-keyring gphoto2 gpm gps graphviz gs gtk gtkhtml guile hal iconv idn ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 irc isdnlog javascript jpeg jpeg2k kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility latex lcms libffi libnotify live mad mailwrapper midi mmap mmx mng mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap mysql nautilus ncurses network networkmanager nfs nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg openexr opengl openmp paludis_hooks_eselect pam pcmcia pcre pdf perl pic png postgres ppds pppd pulseaudio python qdbm qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection ruby samba sasl scanner sdl session slang sndfile snmp socks5 speex spell spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs syslog tetex theora threads tiff truetype udev unicode urandom usb v4l v4l2 vcd vhosts vim-syntax vorbis webkit win32codecs wmf x86 xft xine xml xorg xpm xulrunner xv xvid zlib zsh-completion" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="asis proxy proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http" APACHE2_MPMS="prefork" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse synaptics ps2mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en ja" LIRC_DEVICES="all" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS
I have the same issue. Note I am using lvm.
*** Bug 252380 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 252380 ***