Howdy,

It has been doing this for as long as I can recall.  I'm pretty sure it
did this on my old system before this one as well.  This is what it does. 

root@fireball / # /etc/init.d/net.eth1 restart
 * Caching service dependencies
...                                                                                                                                          
[ ok ]
 * Unmounting network filesystems
...                                                                                                                                        
[ ok ]
 * Bringing down interface eth1
 *   Stopping dhcpcd on eth1 ...
sending signal TERM to pid 2852
waiting for pid 2852 to
exit                                                                                                                                                 
[ ok ]
 * Bringing up interface eth1
 *   dhcp ...
 *     Running dhcpcd ...
DUID 00:99:00:01:1d:ab:d4:a4:00:01:35:80:cd:35
eth1: IAID 35:80:cd:35
eth1: adding address fe80::9dbe:4ab5:f194:3602
eth1: soliciting an IPv6 router
eth1: rebinding lease of 192.168.0.100
eth1: probing address 192.168.0.100/24
eth1: leased 192.168.0.100 for 7200 seconds
eth1: adding route to 192.168.0.0/24
eth1: adding default route via 192.168.0.1
forked to background, child pid
16225                                                                                                                                        
[ ok ]
 *     received address
192.168.0.100/24                                                                                                                                     
[ ok ]
root@fireball / #  * Mounting network filesystems
...                                                                                                                        
[ ok ]

root@fireball / #

See how it receives the address from the router and then gives a prompt
again, then it mounts network file systems where I should type in a
command but that isn't me..  To get a prompt again, I have to hit the
return key.  Why does it give me a prompt when it isn't done yet? 
Shouldn't it finish completely before returning to a prompt?  This is in
a Konsole, within KDE.  That said, I'm pretty sure it does this on a
console, ctrl alt F*, screen as well. 

While this doesn't break anything, it is sort of annoying.  Maybe I have
a setting wrong somewhere?  Maybe there is a bad default setting?  Maybe
it does this for all of us?

Just curious what it up with this. 

Dale

:-)  :-)