Did a emerge world this evening, as I has not updated for a while.
Anyhow, it needed quite a few etc merges. I was quite careful what I
merged (I use Beyond Compare from my Windows PC, across FTP to merge).
The problem I have now, is that when I start up, some services do not
start:

Runlevel: default
local [
off ]
netmount [
started ]
domainname [
started ]
net.eth0 [
started ]
sshd [
started ]
syslog-ng [
started ]
vixie-cron [
off ]
pure-ftpd [
off ]
apache2 [
started ]
mysql [
started ]
alsasound [
started ]
sendmail [
off ]
iptables [
started ]



If however, after starting, I do a:

/etc/init.d/local start

It all comes up OK... What could be causing this? This is a headless
system that I access via sshd, so I do not know if anything is displayed
to the console during boot (is it logged anywhere??? I know about dmesg,
but it's after that bit of bootup)

Thanks.