about a year ago, i had a similar (the same) problem when starting consolefont. here's the thread: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-138391-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-0.html there were some bug fix for the 2.6.9 fbsplash. well please take a look.
root@enti $ emerge --info Portage 2.1_pre10-r4 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.4-r2, 2.6.16-beyond3 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-beyond3 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre19 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: 0.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18 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-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -ftracer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -ftracer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache cvs distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer metadata-transfere sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X Xaw3d acpi alsa apache2 async audiofile automount avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 cairo cdda cli crypt ctype cups curl cvs dga dir divx4linux dlloader dri dts dvd dvdread eds emboss encode ethereal fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran freetype ftp gd gdbm gif glitz gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal icq imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog ithreads java javascript jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal ldap libwww lm_sensors logitech-mouse lzw lzw-tiff mad maildir matroska mikmod mime mmap mng mp3 mpeg musicbrainz mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pascal pcre pdf pdflib perl php png posix pppd python qt quicktime rdesktop readline reflection rtc ruby samba sasl sdl server session slp sndfile sockets spamassassin spell spl sql ssl stream subversion svg swat syslog tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb videos vorbis webdav wxwindows xft xine xml xorg xosd xpm xv xvid zeroconf zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_nvidia" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
(In reply to comment #0) > about a year ago, i had a similar (the same) problem when starting consolefont. > here's the thread: Which problem exactly? Referring to two years old forums script is not much helpful. Are you using some splash? If so, there's nothing that could be done about this message, already explained a couple of times (like Bug 77122 or Bug 63137).
