After upgrading from baselayout 1.11 to 1.12 I could no longer log in to my box. It turns out it is because of metalog. With the new initscripts it starts and locks up, and programs like login or su stop waiting for the syslog. Killing or restarting metalog fixes the problem. This problem somehow occured because I enabled console logging in metalog (commented out in the default/sample configuration). The interesting thing is that once metalog is resatrted everything works again, even if it locked up when started from initscripts. * app-admin/metalog Available versions: 0.8_rc1-r2 ~0.8_rc2 ~0.8_rc4 Installed: 0.8_rc1-r2 Homepage: http://metalog.sourceforge.net/ Description: A highly configurable replacement for syslogd/klogd * sys-apps/shadow Available versions: 4.0.18.1 Installed: 4.0.18.1 Homepage: http://shadow.pld.org.pl/ Description: Utilities to deal with user accounts * sys-apps/baselayout Available versions: 1.11.15-r3 1.12.9 ~1.12.10 [M]1.13.0_alpha12 Installed: 1.12.9 Homepage: http://www.gentoo.org/ Description: Filesystem baselayout and init scripts Portage 2.1.2.2 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.19-gentoo-r5-src i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.19-gentoo-r5-src i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 17:30:08 +0000 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r3, 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks maketest metadata-transfer nostrip sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LINGUAS="en cs cz ja jp" 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 --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acpi aim alsa amr amuled apache2 audiofile avi bcmath berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo caps cdb cdparanoia cdr cjk cli cpdflib cracklib crypt cscope ctype cups curl d dbus dbx debug dedicated dga dio dlloader doc dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode erandom ethereal examples exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac flash flatfile fontconfig foomaticdb fortran ftp gb gcj gd gdbm ggi gif ginac glibc-omitfp glut gmp gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal hardened howl iconv icq idn ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib inifile ipv6 isdnlog jabber javascript jpeg kdexdeltas kerberos lcms libg++ libwww linuxthreads-tls live lm_sensors lua lzo mad maildir matroska matrox mbox midi mikmod mime ming mmap mmx mmxext mng mozilla mp3 mpeg msn mudflap musepack nas ncurses network nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin objc objc++ objc-gc offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl osc oscar oss pam pcntl pcre pdflib perl png ppds pppd python quicktime readline real recode reflection remote rtc ruby samba sasl sdl session sharedmem shorten skey slp sndfile snmp sockets sox speex spell spl sqlite sse ssl svg sysvipc tcpd test tetex theora threads tidy tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales v4l vcd videos vorbis wifi win32codecs wmf x264 x86 xanim xface xml xml2 xorg xosd xpm xprint xv xvid xvmc yahoo zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev mouse keyboard kbd joystick" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en cs cz ja jp" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="mga radeon ati" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Use >=0.8_rc2
x86 stable
Marked ppc stable.
ppc64 stable
amd64 done
sparc stable.
Stable for HPPA.
Mips done.
Side note, metalog > rc1-r1 dies on vserver with Unable to control the kernel logging device: Operation not permitted Unable to bind sockets - aborting rc1-r1 seems to work correctly...
file a new bug ... vserver crap isnt going to hold up stabilization
