Emerging vde 1.5.8 installs /etc/init.d/vde. However, this initscript is not executable after install, and thus rc-update cannot do anything with it. # rc-update add vde default * vde not executable; skipping # ls -l /etc/init.d/ total 204 ... -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 564 Jul 31 16:38 vde Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Expected Results: The initscript should have the executable flag set. # emerge --info Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.12-gentoo-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r7 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.70GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.11 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-mtune=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-mtune=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg ccache distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS=" ftp://mirror.averse.net/pub/gentoo ftp://ftp.isu.edu.tw/pub/Linux/Gentoo ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/gentoo http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="en_SG.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_SG.UTF-8" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acpi alsa avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cjk crypt curl dga eds emboss encode esd fam fbcon foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imlib java javascript jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmap mmx mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline samba sdl spell sse ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis win32codecs xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
I'm working on this. See: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-3095629.html
Should be fixed - see Bug 125135, Comment #2.