emerge --sync emerge --update --deep --newuse world Then reboot. The problem is a warning at boot: please use 'update-modules' from now on; 'modules-update' is going away * using /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 as config Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Update to sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.9 Reboot the computer. The problem is described in the gentoo forum (along with the solution, which is to edit /etc/init.d/modules and to replace /sbin/modules-update by /sbin/update-modules. See http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-552678.html
this has already been fixed in svn