Bless you my son. That was the solution. I had "baselayout ~x86" in my /etc/portage/package.keywords file, so that's how I got this broken version. How it got there in the first place is a bit uncertain, but it has been commented out.
Thank your Andrew! > Probably http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99691 > > ======= On Friday 22 July 2005 01:16, Daevid Vincent wrote: ======= > UGH. I did an "emerge -Davu world" yesterday on my notebook > (Dell i8200), > and everything went fine. I did the etc-updates afterwards. I > even stopped > X-windows and started again and it launched just fine. I > worked the rest of > the day and halted as usual. Today when I turned on my > notebook my startup > doesn't complete?! > > I don't have networking (net.eth0 or net.ath0) on by default > because for > whatever lame-ass reason, if there is no network available or > plugged in, > Gentoo isn't smart enough (like RedHat or WindowsXP) to just > continue on... > Anyways, the point being I can't ssh in. > > The screen looks a bit different today too... I run > frame-buffer 1600x1200, > so at the top is the normal colorized: > > * Setting system clock to hardware clock [Local Time]... > [ OK ] > > But then after that line, they look like this, but in only gray: > > * Starting service hdparm > * Starting service pcmcia > [ !! ] > > * FAILED to start service pcmcia! > * Starting service keymaps > * Starting service bootmisc > ... > Notice how they don't have the [ OK ] on the far right edge > like all the > ones above this point, and they USED to be that way > yesterday. The only > bracketted indicatiors are the [ !! ] ones and there are only > a few: I8k > service, lisa service, and nntpd -- nothing that is critical to boot. > > There are about 40 more lines of "* Starting/Service blah" > and it gets all > the way down to: > ... > * Service aumix started OK > * Service postfix started OK > * Service coldplug started OK > * Service shorewall started OK > > Then that's it. No login prompt. If I switch VTs, I just have > a blinking > cursor at the top. > > I can only CTRL+ALT+DEL and that does a reboot. > > My kernel is the same I've used for many months: 2.6.10-r6 > > I've gone into grub via the menu and taken off all kernel > parameters not > needed to boot. Still no joy. I did notice that the [ !! ] is > lined on the > far right of the screen. I'm guessing that's the 80 column > point. I also > added 'single' to kernel boot string in grub, but that didn't help. > > Looking through the services starting up, there is one called > "* Starting > service rmnologin" > > So. I'm fscked at the moment. Ideas? > > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- [email protected] mailing list
