"xargs: Environment too large" appearing in dmesg every single boot, when Gentoo goes to clean /var/lock and /var/run. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot system. 2. Watch screen. 3. Expected Results: Turns out line 44 of /etc/init.d/bootmisc does a find, then pipes the output to xargs, then has xargs execute rm -f. The relevant code can be simplified to ebegin "Cleaning /var/lock, /var/run" ( find /var/lock -type f -exec rm -f \{\} \; 1>&2 ) which doesn't need xargs and hence avoids the problem. Portage 2.0.48-r5 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.22-rc2-ac3 i686 VIA Nehemiah GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm arts avi crypt encode gif imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl png quicktime sdl slang spell svga truetype xml2 zlib gdbm berkdb readline gpm tcpd pam ssl python acpi alsa cdr -cups curl -foomaticdb -gnome -pdflib perl samba sse -xmms -xv usb -X -gtk -qt -motif" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-mcpu=i686 -O3 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=i686 -O3 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache userpriv usersandbox"
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 23569 ***
