I'm not sure which "emerge -uD world" update to my system last week caused this, but over the last 4-5 days when I've reboot my system now, I get this sequence of events: * Checking all filesystems... /dev/hda1: clean, 35/34136 files, 11554/136521 blocks * Mounting local filesystems * Activating (possibly) more swap * Caching service dependencies /var/lib/init.d/depcache: line 824: /conf.d/basic: No such file or directory /var/lib/init.d/depcache: line 1023: /conf.d/basic: No such file or directory /var/lib/init.d/depcache: line 2003: [: missing ']' /var/lib/init.d/depcache: line 2199: [: missing ']' /var/lib/init.d/depcache: line 2592: [: too many arguments /var/lib/init.d/depcache: line 2789: [: too many arguments /var/lib/init.d/depcache: line 3182: ec: command not found /var/lib/init.d/depcache: line 3378: ec: command not found /var/lib/init.d/depcache: line 4954: syntax error near unexpected token ')' /var/lib/init.d/depcache: line 4954: ')' * Service 'alsasound' already provide 'alsa-modules'!; * Not adding service 'alsasound'... * Service 'alsasound' already provide 'alsa-modules'!; * Not adding service 'apmd'... * Service 'vixie-cron' already provide 'cron'!; * Not adding service 'apmd'... * Service 'vixie-cron' already provide 'cron'!; * Not adding service 'apmd'... * Can't find service 'hostname' needed by 'domainname'; continuing... * Can't find service 'hostname' needed by 'domainname'; continuing... * Can't find service 'hostname' needed by 'domainname'; continuing... * Can't find service 'portmap' needed by 'famd'; continuing... * Can't find service 'hostname' needed by 'modules'; continuing... * Can't find service 'portmap' needed by 'pwcheck'; continuing... * Can't find service 'hostname' needed by 'modules'; continuing... * Can't find service 'portmap' needed by 'pwcheck'; continuing... * Can't find service 'hostname' needed by 'modules'; continuing... * Can't find service 'logger' needed by 'vixie-cron'; continuing... * Can't find service 'logger' needed by 'amavisd'; continuing... * Can't find service 'logger' needed by 'apmd'; continuing... * Can't find service 'logger' needed by 'amavisd'; continuing... * Can't find service 'logger' needed by 'apmd'; continuing... * Can't find service 'logger' needed by 'amavisd'; continuing... * Can't find service 'hostname' needed by 'bootmisc'; continuing... * Bringing eth0 down... * Bringing eth1 down... * Setting system clock to hardware clock [Local Time]... hostname * ERROR: Some services needed are missing. Run * './bootmisc broken' for a list of those * service. "bootmisc" was not started. * Loading ALSA drivers... * Using ALSA OSS emulation * Loading snd-seq-oss * Loading snd-pcm-oss ... etc ... This seems to result in a lot of applications (syslog-ng, postfix, amavisd, apache2) not starting correctly. Manually starting them seems to work (that's my workaround for now), but something appears to be broken with depcache. My system: > emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r3 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040207-r0, 2.4.23_pre8-gss-r2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.23_pre8-gss-r2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13p1 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=pentium4 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" 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/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=pentium4 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ http://www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb cdr crypt cups curl dga directfb dvd dvdr encode esd fbcon flash foomaticdb gd gdbm ggi gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imap imlib java jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad maildir matrox mbox mcal mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mysql nas ncurses nls odbc oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png ppds python qt quicktime readline samba sasl scanner sdl slang snmp spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype usb x86 xml xml2 xmms xv zlib" I'll be happy to provide any other info you may need.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 47111 ***
