If I boot my stable Gentoo system with the kernel command line option "init 2" and login into the konsole and type in "init 3" this works fine, if /etc/init.d/xdm is not in the default runlevel. Instead if xdm is in that level, then after "$>init 3" nothing happens. When I execute a command like "ls" or "date" or something similar, exactly 1 next service is started. For each subsequent service I have to execute a command like "date", "ls" or similar. If I hit the ENTER key w/o any command this action doesn't bring up the next service. tfoerste@n22 ~/workspace $ rc-status nonetwork Runlevel: nonetwork acpid [ started ] dnetc [ started ] dnsmasq [ started ] local [ started ] sendmail [ started ] syslog-ng [ started ] tfoerste@n22 ~/workspace $ rc-status default Runlevel: default acpid [ started ] alsasound [ started ] apache2 [ started ] clamd [ started ] cupsd [ started ] dnetc [ started ] dnsmasq [ started ] klive [ started ] kmyfirewall [ started ] local [ started ] mysql [ started ] net.eth0 [ started ] net.ppp0 [ inactive ] netmount [ stopped ] ntp-client [ started ] ntpd [ started ] sendmail [ started ] smartd [ started ] snort [ started ] syslog-ng [ started ] vixie-cron [ started ] xdm [ started ] Reproducible: Always tfoerste@n22 ~/workspace $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.2.2 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1700MHz Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:50:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r6 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=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -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/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/php/apache1-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ http://85.25.128.62 http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/" LINGUAS="de en" 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.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aac acpi alsa apache2 arts asf berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 cairo cddb clamav cli cracklib crypt css cups dri dvd dvdr dvdread dynamicplugin exif fam fastbuild fortran gd gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 hdaps i8x0 iconv ipv6 isdnlog jai java javascript jimi jpeg libg++ logrotate madwifi mbox midi mikmod mmx mmxext mp3 mp4 mysql ncurses nls no-seamonkey nptl nptlonly nsplugin opengl pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python readline real reflection rtc samba session spl sse sse2 ssl subversion svg tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode userlocales win32codecs x86 xml xorg xpm zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0 intel8x0m" 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" CAMERAS="sonydscf1 sonydscf55" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse joystick evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vga radeon" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Fixed in our svn repo for baselayout-2 baselayout-1 users will need to disable interactive startup in /etc/conf.d/rc