On Monday 02 May 2011 10:03:11 Thanasis wrote: > I am running default/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib profile, and I got the > following news item, after syncing this morning: > > # eselect news read > > 2011-05-01-baselayout-update > Title Baselayout update > Author Christian Faulhammer > Author William Hubbs > Posted 2011-05-01 > Revision 1 > > The baselayout package provides files which all systems must have in > order to function properly. You are currently using version 1.x, which > has several issues. The most significant of these is that the included > init scripts are written entirely in bash, which makes them slow and > not very flexible. > > On 2011/05/08, you will see an update for sys-apps/baselayout to > 2.x and a new package, sys-apps/openrc. It is recommended that you > perform this update as soon as possible. > > Please note, after these packages are emerged, it is > __Absolutely_Critical__ that you immediately update your configuration > files with dispatch-conf, etc-update or a similar tool then follow the > steps in the migration guide located at the following URL. > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml > > FAILURE TO FOLLOW ALL OF THESE STEPS WILL RESULT IN AN UNBOOTABLE > SYSTEM! IF THIS SHOULD HAPPEN, YOU WILL NEED TO BOOT FROM A LIVE CD OR > DVD, MOUNT YOUR ROOT FILE SYSTEM, CHROOT INTO THAT ENVIRONMENT AND > FOLLOW THE ABOVE STEPS! I've been through the migration guide. In the section about udev it mentions /etc/runlevels/sysinit. Is this something added by baselayout2/OpenRC? I don't seem to have this in my runlevels: $ ls -l /etc/runlevels/ total 16 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 18 20:39 boot drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 8 2010 default drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 21 2010 nonetwork drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 21 2010 single -- Regards, Mick