In baselayout-1.11.11-r3, the arguments to dd are the wrong way round in the start() function. As it stands, it's writing whatever /dev/urandom is set to at boot to /var/run/random-seed at both startup and shutdown. Fix: change dd if=/dev/urandom of=/var/run/random-seed count=1 &> /dev/null to dd if=/var/run/random-seed of=/dev/urandom count=1 &> /dev/null in start(). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3 Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.6.11 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, May 7 2005, 10:09:25)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r7 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.blueyonder.co.uk ftp://mirrors.blueyonder.co.uk/mirrors/gentoo http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync3.it.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 a52 aac aalib acl acpi alsa apache2 audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bmp bzip2 caps cdparanoia crypt cscope ctype cups curl curlwrappers dga directfb divx4linux dlloader dts dv dvb dvd dvdread edl emacs-w3 encode exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg fftw flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif glut gmp gnutls gstreamer iconv imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg kerberos ladcca lcms libcaca libg++ libpng libwww live lzo mad matroska mbox memlimit mikmod mime mmap mmx mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcmcia pcre pdflib png ppds pwdb quicktime readline real rtc samba sasl sdl sharedmem shorten simplexml sndfile snmp soap sox speex spell sse ssl svg svga sysfs sysvipc tcpd tga theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vcd vorbis wifi win32codecs wmf xanim xine xml xml2 xmlrpc xpm xprint xsl xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS Note that baselayout has the ~x86 keyword unmasked, because I wanted dm-crypt setup at boot time.
Oops. Re-read the script, and I missed the bit above. Sorry 'bout that.
