[fsckin]

Damn... After I think I've got all the knobs set "just right", I'll always reboot just to see what happens.

This usually catches various common problems not quite as serious as this one... daemon doesn't start, kernel panics, more updates required after boot, etc.

The last time I had something like this happen, needing to restore from a weekly backup, Google or Archive.org had already cached everything new and I was able to recover it all without much hassle.