Kernel panics while booting. gentoo-dev-sources works nice. I know there's already -r9 but I don't have the time to test it now, since it takes about 2 hours here - if it actually helps you anywhere, i'll do it. please just tell me. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge gentoo-sources genkernel 2. cd /usr/src/linux && genkernel all 3. reboot Actual Results: Kernel panics: "Kernel too old. Tried to kill init" (Don't remember to exact format, with 'KERNEL:' line prefixes and so on, but this is an exact quote of the main-message...) Expected Results: Normal Booting. bash-2.05b# emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1, 2.6.7-gentoo-r13) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.7-gentoo-r13 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -Os -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -frename-registers -ffast-math -ftracer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -Os -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -frename-registers -ffast-math -ftracer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo ftp://ftp6.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo ftp://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X acpi adns alsa apache2 atlas audiofile avi bcmath berkdb bidi bzlib calendar cdr cpdflib crypt cscope ctype cups curl curlwrappers dba dbase dbm dedicated dga dio divx4linux encode ethereal exif fam fastcgi fbcon fdftk fftw flac flash flatfile foomaticdb ftp gdbm gif ginac gmp gnutls gphoto2 gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile iconv icq imagemagick imap imlib inifile innodb java jikes joystick jpeg junit ladcca lcms ldap leim lesstif libedit libg++ libgda libwww mad maildir mbox mcal memlimit mhash mikmod mime ming mmap mmx mozilla mpeg mpi mysql mysqli nas ncurses netcdf nis nls nocardbus nocd nptl offensive oggvorbis openal opengl pam pcntl pcre pda pdflib perl pic pie plotutils png pnp posix ppds prelude python qt quicktime readline recode ruby sasl scanner sdl session shared sharedmem slang slp snmp soap sockets socks5 speex spell ssl svg svga sysvipc szip tcltk tcpd theora tidy tiff truetype unicode usb wddx wmf wxwindows x86 xine xml xml2 xmlrpc xmms xosd xpm xsl xv xvid yaz zlib" bash-2.05b#
USE="nptl" 2.4 doesn't support NPTL, hence it dies when booting. Closing as INVALID.