On Tuesday 17 May 2011 20:48:54 Dale wrote:
> The emerge -e world finished.  It still doesn't work like it did a few
> weeks ago.  So, I tried the nonetwork option.  That starts about every
> service except the GUI, my UPS thingy and a couple others.  Get this, it
> even starts the freaking network.  Why is it called nonetwork if it
> starts the network too.  Seeing the list of services it started, it
> didn't miss many.

Did it start as part of "Hey, there is a network card, lets use it"?

I believe the default configuration auto-starts network devices if any are 
found.

> There is something not right here.  It appears that openrc or whatever
> is not working the way it should.  The funniest part about this, it
> worked fine the other day and it works just fine from a console.  It
> just doesn't work right when passed from grub.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this?

Try disabling auto-starting services? :)

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Joost

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