After my last upgrade today my systems fails to boot unless I instruct to load init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd directly from the command line.
To me it seems it is a symlink that went /dev/null here. A snip. from my entropy.log: * Purging current Entropy cache * If you want to enable Entropy packages delta download support, please * install dev-util/bsdiff. [22:50:25 25/03/2014 CET] INFO: [Package] [client] Unpacking package: /var/lib/entropy/client/packages/packages/amd64/5/sys-apps/sys-apps:systemd-208-r3.69eb7a7bd25d09dcddd0bbc0a4c53eda1bef5cac~3.tbz2 * Determining the location of the kernel source code * Found kernel source directory: * /usr/src/linux * Found sources for kernel version: * 3.12.0-sabayon * Checking for suitable kernel configuration options... [ ok ] [22:50:29 25/03/2014 CET] INFO: [Package] [client] Installing package: sys-apps/systemd-208-r3 [22:50:29 25/03/2014 CET] INFO: [Package] [client] WARNING!!! Failed to handle file protection for: /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf, broken symlink in package Setting the init implementation to systemd [22:50:33 25/03/2014 CET] INFO: [Trigger] [client] [POST] Running env_update !!! Error: Target "systemd" doesn't appear to be valid! exiting [22:50:34 25/03/2014 CET] INFO: [Package] [client] Remove old package (spm data): sys-apps/systemd-208-r3 [22:50:34 25/03/2014 CET] INFO: [Package] [client] Removing from SPM: sys-apps/systemd-208-r3 [22:50:34 25/03/2014 CET] INFO: [Package] [client] Installing new SPM entry: sys-apps/systemd-208-r3 [22:50:35 25/03/2014 CET] INFO: [Trigger] [client] [POST] Running env_update * Updating systemd journal catalogs ... [ ok ] * Running udev control --reload for reloading rules and databases ... [ ok ] [22:51:10 25/03/2014 CET] INFO: [Package] [client] Removing package: sys-apps/sysvinit-2.88-r10 !!! Error: Target "systemd" doesn't appear to be valid! exiting [22:51:15 25/03/2014 CET] INFO: [Trigger] [client] [POST] Running env_update !!! Error: Target "systemd" doesn't appear to be valid! exiting [22:51:16 25/03/2014 CET] INFO: [Package] [client] Removing from SPM: sys-apps/sysvinit-2.88-r10 [22:51:16 25/03/2014 CET] INFO: [Package] [client] Unpacking package: /var/lib/entropy/client/packages/packages/amd64/5/sys-apps/sys-apps:systemd-sysv-utils-208.75d36f23df9e16a08f896014956eee0f4eade8e1~0.tbz2 [22:51:16 25/03/2014 CET] INFO: [Package] [client] Installing package: sys-apps/systemd-sysv-utils-208 [22:51:17 25/03/2014 CET] INFO: [Package] [client] Installing new SPM entry: sys-apps/systemd-sysv-utils-208 [22:51:27 25/03/2014 CET] INFO: [Package] [client] Removing package: app-admin/eselect-init-0.6 [22:51:28 25/03/2014 CET] INFO: [Package] [client] Removing from SPM: app-admin/eselect-init-0.6 [22:51:28 25/03/2014 CET] INFO: [Package] [client] Unpacking package: /var/lib/entropy/client/packages/packages/amd64/5/app-misc/app-misc:sabayon-version-14.04-r2.14860fc183ded0b12aee1fac793a3ea7c5fe3ae5~0.tbz2 [22:51:28 25/03/2014 CET] INFO: [Package] [client] Installing package: app-misc/sabayon-version-14.04-r2 [22:51:29 25/03/2014 CET] INFO: [Package] [client] Remove old package (spm data): app-misc/sabayon-version-14.04 [22:51:29 25/03/2014 CET] INFO: [Package] [client] Removing from SPM: app-misc/sabayon-version-14.04 [22:51:29 25/03/2014 CET] INFO: [Package] [client] Installing new SPM entry: app-misc/sabayon-version-14.04-r2 [22:52:19 25/03/2014 CET] INFO: [Package] [client] Unpacking package: /var/lib/entropy/client/packages/packages/amd64/5/sys-kernel/sys-kernel:dracut-037.69b2206b913ace722401c876f8606e02457f578e~0.tbz2 [22:52:22 25/03/2014 CET] INFO: [Package] [client] Installing package: sys-kernel/dracut-037 [22:52:23 25/03/2014 CET] INFO: [Package] [client] Remove old package (spm data): sys-kernel/dracut-036-r4 [22:52:23 25/03/2014 CET] INFO: [Package] [client] Removing from SPM: sys-kernel/dracut-036-r4 [22:52:23 25/03/2014 CET] INFO: [Package] [client] Installing new SPM entry: sys-kernel/dracut-037
