Pasted the info below...system was usable though, boot up completed and put me into a login prompt. Reiserfs journal '/dev/hda7' in blocks [18..8211]: 0 transactions replayed Checking internal tree..finished * Mounting local filesystems ... * Mounting USB device filesystem (usbfs) ... * Activating (possibly) more swap ... * Setting system clock to hardware clock [Local Time] ... * Starting acpid ... * Configuring kernel parameters ... * Updating environment ... * Cleaning /var/lib/net-scripts/state ... * Cleaning /var/lock, /var/run ... * Cleaning /tmp directory ... /sbin/runscript.sh: line 363: 1989 Quit ( function exit () { RC_QUIET_STDOUT="no"; eerror "DO NOT USE EXIT IN INIT.D SCRIPTS"; eerror "This IS a bug, please fix your broken init.d"; unset -f exit; exit $@ }; [[ ${RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP} == "yes" ]] && RC_QUIET_STDOUT="yes"; start ) * Loading key mappings ... /sbin/runscript.sh: line 363: 2079 Quit ( function exit () { exit $@ }; [[ ${RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP} == "yes" ]] && RC_QUIET_STDOUT="yes"; start ) * Loading key mappings ... /sbin/runscript.sh: line 363: 2079 Quit ( function exit () { RC_QUIET_STDOUT="no"; eerror "DO NOT USE EXIT IN INIT.D SCRIPTS"; eerror "This IS a bug, please fix your broken init.d"; unset -f exit; exit $@ }; [[ ${RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP} == "yes" ]] && RC_QUIET_STDOUT="yes"; start ) * ERROR: Problem starting needed services. * "consolefont" was not started. /lib/rcscripts/sh/rc-services.sh: line 601: 2143 Quit ln -snf "/etc/init.d/$1" "${svcdir}/failed/$1" * ERROR: "/etc/init.d/metalog" has syntax errors in it; aborting ... /lib/rcscripts/sh/rc-services.sh: line 533: 2313 Quit rm -f "${f}" * Initializing random number generator ... /sbin/runscript.sh: line 363: 2329 Quit ( function exit () { RC_QUIET_STDOUT="no"; eerror "DO NOT USE EXIT IN INIT.D SCRIPTS"; eerror "This IS a bug, please fix your broken init.d"; unset -f exit; exit $@ }; [[ ${RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP} == "yes" ]] && RC_QUIET_STDOUT="yes"; start ) INIT: Entering runlevel: 3 * ERROR: Problem starting needed services. * "alsasound" was not started. # emerge --info Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.12-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre6 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.11 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 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache cvs distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X a52 aac acpi alsa apache2 apm avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzlib cdr crypt cscope ctype cups curl directfb divx4linux dvd dvdread eds emboss encode ethereal exif fam fbcon fbconftp foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm geoip gif gimpprint gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal imagemagick imap imlib imlib2 innodb ipv6 java javascript jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mbox md5sum mikmod mmx motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mpeg4 mysql ncurses nls odbc offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl php png python qt quicktime readline ruby sdl slang smtp speex spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vanilla vorbis win32codecs xml2 xmms xosd xv xvid zlib linguas_en userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
Do you have RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP enabled in conf.d/rc ?
Nope, it's set to no.
Please: $ tar -jcf /tmp/init.tar.bz2 /etc/rc.conf /etc/conf.d/ /etc/init.d/ and attach /tmp/init.tar.bz2 here.
I *might* be able to do this only on Monday (this is my machine at work)...I'll put it up then.
Using the same - no issues here.
Ok, I can't reproduce this. I also remembered that I was trying out "I" mode when this happened... I guess this will go NEEDINFO till it can be reproduced consistently?
Yeah, we need more info about this one
