The netmount script fails at boot. It seems that it cannot connect to the network. The workaround is to add a 'sleep 3' before mounting the network resources (not less than 3). I suppose that it thinks net has already started but it really hasn't yet. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3, 2.4.22-ck2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.22-ck2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1700MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/ share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/ config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/ Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline arts svga X sdl gpm tcpd pam ssl perl python imlib oggvorbis qt kde motif opengl aalib artswrappersuid bluetooth cdr dga directfb dv dvd ethereal fam fbcon fbdev ffmpeg java javascript pcmcia pda pnp radeon samba sse usb X509 xvid -gtk -gnome -xmms"
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