When I 'emerge world' and then run 'etc-update', the following files need to be updated: 9) /etc/init.d/net.eth0 /etc/init.d/._cfg0000_net.eth0 10) /etc/init.d/net.lo When I look at the new files, however, they are swapped, i.e. net.eth0 should be net.lo and vise versa. This happens to me every time I have to update these conf files with 'etc-update'.
You neglected to post emerge --info.
sorry, here is my emerge --info: Portage 2203-svn (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0-r1 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 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-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /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/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp:///ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo ftp://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://adelie.polymtl.ca/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X aac acl alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr cli crypt cups curl dri dvdread eds emboss encode esd ethereal exif expat fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm geoip gif glut gmp gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 id3 idn imagemagick imlib isdnlog java jpeg junit kde lcms ldap libg++ libwww mad mhash mikmod mmx mmxext mng motif mp3 mpeg mpeg2 mysql ncurses network nls nvidia ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl php png ppds pppd python qt quicktime readline recode reflection samba scanner sdl session slang snmp spell spl sse sse2 ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb vorbis win32codecs xine xml xml2 xmms xorg xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
I think you have your symlinks mixed. net.eth0 should be a symlink to net.lo and it appears to be the other way around on your box. To fix rm -f /etc/init.d/net.{eth0,lo} emerge -1 baselayout ln -s net.lo /etc/init.d/net.eth0 Reopen if that does not solve it.
