sys-apps/evms-2.1.0 installs /etc/init.d/evms. In this file the part: stop() { ebegin "Stopping evms" evms_deactivate eend 0 } is obsolete. Evms does not install any evms_deactivate at all! From the evms-2.1.0 changelog: Remove evms_deactivate as a UI utility. This program should only be used for testing. Thus stop() should do nothing.
Chip, you still into this ?
baselayout-1.8.6.10 added a call to evms_activate in the checkfs script. Thus the initrd script from evms is no longer needed.
Was fixed on 24 Jan 2004 by Seemant K.