Re: [gentoo-user] booting with kernel 3.10.17 - services fail to start. Help, please!

2013-12-07 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Tom. Thanks for such a rapid reply. On Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 10:50:16PM +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Sat, 7 Dec 2013 21:26:08 + > Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > My evidence for this failure comes from "$ rc config show -all": every > > visible service is marked as being "[stopped]". If I t

Re: [gentoo-user] booting with kernel 3.10.17 - services fail to start. Help, please!

2013-12-07 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sat, 7 Dec 2013 21:26:08 + Alan Mackenzie wrote: > My evidence for this failure comes from "$ rc config show -all": every > visible service is marked as being "[stopped]". If I try "$ rc config > start ", I get told something like "service is already > starting". The same happens with "$

[gentoo-user] booting with kernel 3.10.17 - services fail to start. Help, please!

2013-12-07 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Gentoo! I finally built 3.10.17 a couple of weeks back, and have spent many hours, fruitlessly, trying to get a handle on the following problem. I boot with 3.10.17 and the services fail to start. Everything is fine with 3.8.13. My system is an amd-64 stable, with /usr on the root partition