On this particular system, one and only one script output line does not fit. It could be a framebuffer problem. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.boot the system 2. 3. Actual Results: the line with "Waiting for uevents to be processed" behaves oddly, since the trailing '[OK]' is offset by 1 or 2 blanks, which causes the last character to be displayed on the next line. Expected Results: should fit on one line like all the other ones HeraGentoo ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1.7.16 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.10.1-r1, 2.6.31-gentoo-r6 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6-x86_64-Genuine_Intel-R-_CPU_U4100_@_1.30GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.13 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:45:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p35 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.9-r2 dev-lang/python: 2.6.4 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4-r3 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc: 4.3.4 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests ccache distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://192.168.1.222/gentoo" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="nl" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://192.168.1.222/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl amd64 berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus doc dri dvd floppy fortran gdbm gpm gstreamer hal iconv ipv6 jadetex java jpeg kde mmx mng modules mpeg msn mudflap mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly opengl openmp pam pcre perl phonon png pppd python qt3support qt4 readline reflection session spl sql sse sse2 ssl svg sysfs tcpd tiff tk truetype unicode usb webkit wps xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS=" hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS=" canon" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES=" evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="nl" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS=" intel vesa vga" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
of course this has only trivial severity... forgot to enter that right away
For what it's worth, some additional info: I briefly noticed a few extra characters being displayed on the screen, I believe they are '^@'.
Does this disappear, if you modify this range in /etc/init.d/udev: ebegin "Waiting for uevents to be processed" udevadm settle --timeout=${udev_settle_timeout:-60} eend $? append ">/dev/null" to the udevadm-line.
This is quite old bug. Please check with current udev-197-r3 or higher with USE="openrc" enabled to get udev-init-scripts also pulled in. Thanks! Report back to us here.