On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 03:52:04PM +0800, Ray Rashif wrote: > On 21 July 2011 15:19, Fons Adriaensen <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'm not at the studio ATM so I can't try, but what about > > the sysvinit package ? It provides /sbin/init, and it was > > not in your list of 'usual suspects'. > > The last time that was updated was in Oct 2010 [1]. > > > to find out why after reverting kernel, mkinitcpio, udev, > > etc. to versions known to work I still get those 'new style' > > boot messages - indicating that something else should be > > reverted as well to return to the working configuration. > > How are these "new style" boot messages actually? Each line starts with the time (since boot) in seconds and microseconds, like e.g. [ 3.141592] -- FA