Peter Humphrey wrote:
>
> The attached photo shows what has been happening recently on logging on to
> the
> rescue system on this box, the i5 NUC I mentioned recently. I can't imagine
> what might be causing this. It's easily escaped by logging in again, which
> works as it should.
Could be the effect that was described in this news item ("eselect news list"):
2025-09-04 sys-apps/openrc user services introduction
Did you read it? Can be disabled in /etc/rc.conf:
# Set to "NO" if you don't want pam_openrc autostarting user services. This
# effectively disables the pam module, without the need of removing it from
# the pam configuration files.
#rc_autostart_user="YES"
Just a guess...
-Matt