Hi, I have to power down one of my machines each day. Booting it the other day fails from time to time. On this (and all my machines) /usr is on an ext4 file system by its own. It looks as if mounting /usr fails sometimes (silently). The first unusual message is that it cannot find the file /usr/sbin/acpid . After that, most other actions fail as well.
Once the machine has failed to boot it will fail every time afterwards unless I do the following: I boot by a rescue CD, change root and re-emerge sys-power/acpid (this package contains /usr/sbin/acpid). This single action has helped without any problem each time I had to try it. Of course, I've done many checks on the drive hosting the /usr partition - no errors at all (the drive is only a few months old and a good one (enterprise edition)). So, I suspect openrc. Might it be that this is a timing problem and openrc doesn't check if the partition is mounted? Booting has worked just flawlessly on that machine for more than a year. It looks as if a recent version of openrc (currently 0.6.8) has generated this problem. Thanks for any hint, Helmut.
