Zapp Brannigan wrote:
> 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.

Have you tried an 'rc-update add <service> default' on the services that
aren't starting?

MM