After DEPCLEAN kernel 3.7.7+ won't boot

[binro]

Help, I am having a bit of crisis. I did an emerge --depclean on my main desktop/server and now the boot sequence gets stuck and dies at the "waiting for udev events stage" using kernel 3.7.7. Same thing with the latest 3.8.5. Falling back to kernel 3.6.8 the systems boots fine, so what vital command have I acidentaly removed and how can I get more info? Revdep-rebuild and update/world don't show anything missing. udev-200 is installed and was working fine until the depclean. I could restore all the partitions to the previous state but if it's something simple I would like to avoid that.

TIA!
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[Hu]

What did you remove using emerge --depclean?

[binro]

[NeddySeagoon]

binro,

You had udev-200 working with kernel-3.8.5 before the --depclean?

It odd that it still works with an older kernel after --depclean. udev has been getting less and less tolerant of missing kernel options.

Do you have

[binro]

@Neddy,
All my kernels have those options set. I was using 3.7.7 when I did the depclean, I just tried 3.8.5 because it is the latest.
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Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst"
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[binro]

I bit the bullet, reformatted the LVs and restored from my backups. All is well again. It is all very scary though, I have no idea what caused the problem; Linux is getting very difficult to manage nowadays. As for DEPCLEAN, I have a 2TB disk so I suppose I can live with the cruft.
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"Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst"
from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling