AWK is needed by the boot scripts to boot the system. On a Linux system boot should not depend on /usr being mounted, only /lib, /bin/, /sbin, and /etc. The new gawk-3.1.4-r2 builds with a dependency on /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0 (check by 'ldd /bin/awk') and this renders many systems unbootable as awk is needed by boot scripts. My LVM2 systems cannot boot without a downgrade to sys-apps/gawk/gawk-3.1.3-r2. I have had to chroot from a LiveCD and downgrade to correct this on all my systems. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -Du gawk 2. reboot 3. system replies "awk: error while loading shared libraries: libexpat.so.0" 4. System cannot run lvm utilities. All report "Locking type1 intialization failed" Actual Results: System won't boot up properly. /etc/init.d/checkfs can't run without working awk. Expected Results: Do not depend on libexpat or move it to /lib
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 81793 ***
