For almost every init script, the following seems to appear at bootup and shutdown: Usage: splash logstring splash -s [-u unit] -n [cfgfile] I also do not see any sign of progress bar information. Is this to-be-worked-out? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Portage 2.0.49-r13-2 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.1, glibc-2.3.2-r6, 2.4.20-gentoo-r7) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r7 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1300MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.11 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -funroll-loops -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss encode foomaticdb gif libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg nls png svga xv gdbm berkdb java guile tcpd perl python esd gtk acpi alsa apm -arts avi bonobo crypt cscope cups curl doc -emacs ethereal evo fbcon flash gd gb gnome gpm gstreamer gtk2 gtkhtml imap imlib jpeg -kde kerberos mmx mozilla ncurses -slang oggvorbis opengl pam pcmcia pda pdflib postgres readline quicktime -qt samba sasl sdl ssl spell tcltk truetype trusted usb wxwindows X xosd xml2 xml -xmms zeo zlib vim-with-x xine flac mozsvg moznoirc moznomail moznocompose radeon irmc bluetooth"
This is discussed in bug #21019. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 21019 ***
