Kurt Guenther wrote:

>
> I masked the latest baselayout and remerged 11.13.  All is well 
> again.   I opened bug:
>
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99691
>
>
>
> serent@bellsouth.net wrote:
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>> I'm ~x86 on a dell laptop.
>> I'm having some fun this morning. Everything was working this 
>> morning, but I shut down the system for my daily commute and now it 
>> won't boot. I seem to remember a few gnome emerges last night, but 
>> everything emerged cleanly and ran etc-update.
>>
>> I have some failing init scripts such as xfs (ie, X Font Server) and 
>> net.eth0.  I did a 'rc-update del' on these and xdm, so that I'd have 
>> a starting point from which to work from.
>> However, it sill won't give me a bash shell. It literally hangs after 
>> starting the last script.
>> Does anybody know which rock to turn over to find out why this is the 
>> case?
>> --Kurt
>>
>> PS- I can boot off the Gentoo Live CD. I did a new 'emerge sync', but 
>> I can't find anything that would fix this. I also checked 
>> bugs.gentoo.com, but nada. I'm running fsck on all my file partitions 
>> to see if there is an error.
>>
>>  
>>
>
Hi,
Can confirm on what Kurt said, also had problems "till need to boot from 
LiveCD" to repair the system with latest ~x86 baselayout-1.12.0_pre1-r1.
Will report on the Bug above (seems /etc/conf.d/rc to be the culpit).
HTH. Rumen