A service which dependency is only "use" instead of "need" should produce a less restrictive message if start fails: In the ecample below netmount is not needed but would be useful: n22 /etc/apache2/modules.d # /etc/init.d/apache2 restart * Stopping apache2 ... [ ok ] * Starting eth0 * Loading networking modules for eth0 * modules: iwconfig essidnet iptunnel ifconfig tuntap adsl dhcpcd apipa * iwconfig provides wireless * ifconfig provides interface * dhcpcd provides dhcp * Wireless extensions not found for eth0 * Bringing up eth0 * dhcp * Running dhcpcd ... [ !! ] * Starting eth0 * Loading networking modules for eth0 * modules: iwconfig essidnet iptunnel ifconfig tuntap adsl dhcpcd apipa * iwconfig provides wireless * ifconfig provides interface * dhcpcd provides dhcp * Wireless extensions not found for eth0 * Bringing up eth0 * dhcp * Running dhcpcd ... [ !! ] * ERROR: Problem starting needed services. * "netmount" was not started. * Starting apache2 ... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. n22 /etc/apache2/modules.d # emerge info Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1700MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -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/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ http://mir.zyrianes.net/gentoo/ http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/" LINGUAS="de en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acpi aim alsa apache2 arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin cardbus cddb cdparanoia crypt cups curl dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode ethereal fam font-server foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib innodb ipv6 jai java javascript jimi jpeg junit kde libg++ libwww live mad mbox mikmod mmx mmxext mng motif mp3 mpeg mysql nagios-dns nagios-ntp nagios-ping nagios-s ncurses network nls no-old-linux nsplugin ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline real samba sdl slp smime snmp spell sse sse2 ssl subversion svg tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales vorbis webdav wifi xanim xfs xine xml2 xmms xv zlib linguas_de linguas_en userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Do you still see this with baselayout-1.12? Re-open if you do.
works fine with sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.5-r2
