Annoying blank lines in Gentoo startup sequence

[psycho]

Just an annoyance, but it's ugly. Whereas the boot sequence used to finish with something like:

This is host.domain

...it now finishes with:

This is host.





domain

...with a bunch of unnecessary blank lines inserted. Any idea where they might be coming from? /etc/issue looks fine, as does /etc/hosts...and I can't remember editing anything in /etc since it used to work properly. It looks to me as though something running in parallel is spewing blank lines onto the console, but it always happens right there between the host and domain names. I may have some init scripts incorrectly assigned (to the wrong runlevels). This is my rc-update:

[Navar]

Show output of:

[psycho]

[psycho]

...and the latest update world fixed it. Don't know what caused it, but I don't really care now