In article <20060927090830.GI8186@bcd.geek.com.au>,
Daniel Carosone  <dan@geek.com.au> wrote:
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>On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 11:40:59PM -0700, John Nemeth wrote:
>> } Ok, something must be different in my startup code because my init can
>> } write them... I will look some more.
>> 
>>      I saw those as well on an i386 build that I did on Sunday.  I was
>> short on time, so I din't have a chance to look into it and I don't
>> have the machine handy.
>
>I got something like this go by too on a new laptop freshly installed
>with current built on Monday (no sysinst, just partition and drop a
>DESTDIR on).  I haven't investigated yet.

I added an strerror() to the message so please try with a newer init.
It might provide more information. Do you have a utmpx file?

christos