On Wednesday 18 May 2011 02:48:54 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.
Put rc_hotplug="!net.*" into /etc/rc.conf. The system is getting too clever by half; nowadays it starts whatever it can, and only then does it look to see what you've set via rc-update. -- Rgds Peter