After upgrade to baselayout-1.11.15-r3 I have problems with KDE. It complains about lack of powersave daemon and lack of dbus daemon. This is because xdm now starts before openvpn in my boot process and my openvpn key needs a passphrase so that kde starts on vt7 without needed services while openvpn sits on vt1 waiting patiently for the passphrase whilst blocking subsequent services from starting. I have RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP="no" in my /etc/conf.d/rc and I have my normal user auto login to KDE (I have a boot password). The obvious but unsatisfactory workaround that I'm currently using is to remove openvpn from the run-level and start it manually after KDE has started. Portage 2.1-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.16-suspend2-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-suspend2-r8 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.86GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.15 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 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-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-ident -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-ident -pipe -fvisibility-inlines-hidden" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirrors.blueyonder.co.uk/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LINGUAS="en_GB" MAKEOPTS="-j2" 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.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acpi alsa apache2 arts asf avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cli crypt cups curl dlloader dri dvd emacs encode fbsplash ffmpeg foomaticdb gdbm gif glut gmp gpm gs gtk2 hal idn imagemagick imlib isdnlog java jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kdexdeltas lcms libg++ libwww logrotate mad mikmod mmx mng mp3 mpeg musicbrainz ncurses nls nosendmail nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl pic png ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session smartcard spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg tcpd threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userlocales vorbis win32codecs xml xorg xscreensaver xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_synaptics kernel_linux linguas_en_GB userland_GNU video_cards_fglrx video_cards_radeon video_cards_vesa video_cards_fbdev video_cards_vga" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Not baselayout.
Fixed, thanks.