On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 23:03, Andy Arbon wrote:
> I did my updates today, which I believe included baselayout and
> everything seems to have gone a bit weird. The first time I rebooted I
> got an error message and the boot stopped and dropped me into emergency
> maintenence mode telling me to recreate /var/state/init.d/ or else the
> system couldn't boot.
> 
> This I did, then restarted and the system came up and appears to be
> fine, other than the fact that I get a whole assload of error messages
> appear on bootup. The first one complains about a runlevel (sysinit?)
> being missing, the others appear to be various things from mount and
> other stuff, but they go past too quickly to get a good look.
[snip]
> What happened? Is this something I should have expected or is something
> broken?
> 
> It's getting to the stage that I loathe to see baselayout come up for an
> ~ emerge, because it always seems to indicate trouble a brewing. ;)

At the end of every install/update emerge will tell you if there are any
config files to update, *UPDATE THEM*! The tool to do so was moved into
portage for this very reason.

-- 
Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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