I have a nvidia-card, and hence needed RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="yes" in my /etc/conf.d/rc. Now that nvidia-devices are created by udev, there exists no non-udev-device anymore, and the "shutdown"-script will fail: (line 51 of halt.sh:) === # Now only tarball those not created by udev try tar -jclpf "${device_tarball}" \ `fgrep -x -v -f "${devices_udev}" < "${devices_real}"` === stops the shutdown with the following error-message: The "tar" command failed with error: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive. The obvious solution is of course to disable RC_DEVICE_TARBALL, but the script doesn't need to crash. It could test, if there are files to save, and suggest the removal of the option in the /etc/conf.d/rc. I'm not a bash-scripter, but I'm thinking of something like: ${tmp} = `fgrep -x -v -f .....` if [ ${tmp} ] then try tar ... ... else rm old_tar touch new_tar echo "You might consider removing the RC_DEVICE_TARBALL in /etc/conf.d/rc" fi Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. flo@basil ~ $ emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.2, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.8-gentoo-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r8 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.6 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.92.0.2-r1 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -march=athlon-xp -mtune=athlon-xp" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -march=athlon-xp -mtune=athlon-xp" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mir.zyrianes.net/gentoo/ ftp://mir.zyrianes.net/gentoo/ http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X alsa apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdparanoia cdr cgj crypt cups dga directfb divx4linux doc dvd dvdr encode esd f77 fam flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm ggi gif gpm gstreamer gtk2 guile imagemagick imapimlib innodb ipv6 jpeg junit kde libg++ libwww mad matroska mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mysql nas ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline samba sdl slang speex spell sse ssl svga tcltktcpd tetex theora tiff truetype v4l v4l2 x86 xinerama xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib"
*** Bug 71142 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Fixed in CVS.
