If a network device goes down (i.e. /etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop) an error was emitted. I tracked down that issue. It comes from the existance of the unionctl tool. If it exists the call to is_union_fs in the script resolves to true and the appropriate if-then block is executed. See line 1006 of file /etc/init.d/net.lo which reads: elif is_union_fs / ; then for x in $(unionctl "${dir}" --list \ | sed -e 's/^\(.*\) .*/\1/') ; do if is_net_fs "${x}" ; then The culprit is that ${dir} resolves to nothing. As result the output of unionctl is a helper page. Analyzing this output with sed and feeding it to is_net_fs results in error outputs. I suggest to change the line for x in $(unionctl "${dir}" --list \ to for x in $(unionctl "/" --list \ Reproducible: Always Actual Results: Error message came out if unionctl tool is installed: ------------------- cut ----------------------- Stopping eth1 No such file or directory Bringing down eth0 Shutting down eth0 ... ------------------- cut ----------------------- Expected Results: No error message. Portage 2.1.4.4 (unavailable, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.23-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.23-gentoo-r6 i686 unknown Timestamp of tree: Unknown dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r9 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -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/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="buildpkg distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" PKGDIR="/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="minimal" Unset: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS
thanks, ive changed it to / in svn
