I pushed a new initscripts package to testing tonight to try to fix these two bugs: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/4316 (Status messages malformed when using serial console) http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7294 (base/initscripts: Make isatty a little more useful.) I fixed the second one by doing away with isatty entirely in favor of the bash test option -t. This shouldn't affect anything but the output, but let me know if you see any issues before I push it to current. -Dan