The boot and shutdown processes of later kernels {2.6.33 and 2.6.34, possibly earlier} are now behaving rather oddly for me.
In general, I normally see a blinking cursor {CLI mode} during the entire boot and shutdown processes.
What happens now is that the blinking cursor sometimes goes solid and stops blinking. When it does, if I hit 'enter', the process completes the current step and moves on to the next with the cursor resuming it's blinking status. This can and does happen multiple times during the boot/shutdown processes.
When the cursor is in it's "solid" state, it will time out eventually, complete the current step and move onto the next. However, if I don't want to be waiting what seems like f o r e v e r , I need to keep hitting the enter key to keep the boot/shutdown processes moving in a tolerable fashion.
In addition the above weird behavior, there are no significant messages in syslog {i.e., no message indicating a timeout for instance}. Nor is there any indication of anything strange in dmesg.
Anyone else encounter this kind of strangeness?
This is a partial dump of my current configuration:
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# emerge --info
Portage 2.2_rc67 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.4.3, glibc-2.11.1-r0, 2.6.33.5 x86_64)
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System uname: Linux-2.6.33.5-x86_64-AMD_Phenom-tm-_9600_Quad-Core_Processor-with-gentoo-2.0.1
Timestamp of tree: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 02:00:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash: 4.1_p7
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11
dev-lang/python: 2.5.4-r4, 2.6.5-r2, 3.1.2-r3
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.1.0
dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8
dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r2
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1
sys-apps/openrc: 0.6.1-r1
sys-apps/sandbox: 2.2
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65
sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r4, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.3-r2
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.7b
virtual/os-headers: 2.6.33
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA dlj-1.1 PUEL"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=opteron -O2 -pipe"
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CXXFLAGS="-march=opteron -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests ccache distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en"
MAKEOPTS="-j6"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/zugaina /var/lib/layman/x11 /usr/local/portage"
