mtimes differ

Published on April 27th, 2006 in Gentoo

I recently noticed a strange message during the booting process of my gentoo desktop box. The system still seemed to work fine, but it was still really annoying and it was also slowing down the boot-up. So I crawled the web. I’ve seen lots of different posts and suggestions on how to solve this, but most of them would not work. This is the solution I finally found working in my case:

touch /etc/init.d/* && /sbin/depscan.sh –update

Explanation:

• Touch is used to update the Date & Time stamps on all configuration scripts within /etc/init.d
• depscan.sh is used to recreate the dependency cache (it does not recompile the depencies, so don’t worry)

Give it a try, it should not be harmful to your system.

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