I got that with some parameters passed to kernel line init scripts do not behave correctly. Don't know if it's a baselayout fault or bash or whatever else. If CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 is set as new kernels require dcron init script is run but no dcron process exist (so dcron stop doesn't work, and dcron daemon too of course). Another really strange thing is with splash=silent,fadein,theme:gechi set fetchmail script edited with some other need (I simply added postfix freepopsd and amavisd to fetchmail init script) it ask me a password as told in http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2601987.html#2601987 I used till today this boot line: kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 acpi_irq_balance acpi_irq_isa=3,12 #splash=silent,fadein,theme:gechi video=vesafb:ywrap,pmipal,mtrr,1600x1200-16,vtotal=64 #quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 where now I have commented all those parameters to solve this trange behaviour. Hope to have a solution or someone else with similar problems to understand why! I tried recompiling bash with less hard CFLAGS but with no luck. Even using older baselayout made no difference (1.11.12).
no kernel requires you to set CONSOLE
Taken right from splashutils ebuild: ewarn "It is required that you add 'quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1' to your kernel" ewarn "command line parameters." echo "" einfo "After these modifications, the relevant part of the kernel command" einfo "line might look like:" einfo " splash=silent,fadein,theme:emergence quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1" So... kernel 2.6.12 needs it to use fbsplash. sorry I forgot to tell about fbsplash.
i blame the misbehavior on fbsplash then feel free to toss back spock ;)
The misbehaviour is not in fbsplash, it's in the initscripts/daemons, as explained here: http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/gensplash/troubleshooting.php#ctty and, for example, in bug #86550. Sure, removing CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 from the kernel command line will make the problem go away, but IMO it's like evading solving the real problem by saying "if it doesn't work, don't use it".
*** Bug 100446 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
thanks for the explanation now we just need to file bugs for specific apps ... i'll take care of Bug 86562 now that i know why it's needed
Not sure if this will fix it, but I want to remember changing: ----- splash=silent,fadein,theme:gechi ----- to: ----- splash=silent,fadein,theme:gechi,tty:11 ----- worked for me when I played with fbsplash.
