I just upgrade to openrc and I was having many problems. After some time debugging, and comparing my services which started up with someone else's, I was able to fix this. So others don't have to spend the time I did, I would like to make a modification to the guide. First, udev should be in the sysinit startup group. Without this nothing would mount, and my computer was a giant paper weight. It *should* have been there automatically from the udev upgrade, but it was not. It should be noted that if this fails, one will have to add this themselves. Second, the /etc/init.d/clock should be deleted. The file hwclock provides the service clock, but if the actual clock file exists than it won't use hwclock. This lead to a few problems. On startup I would get an error about fsck not being able to start ("ERROR: cannot start hwclock as fsck would not start"). On both startup and shutdown I would see "Caching service dependencies" every other line (and this would be slow, 2 mins to start up). Finally, on shutdown I would see "hwlock: waiting for localmount" and this would spam my console for about 10 mins before my computer would reboot. Once I did the above (which did not happen automatically) openrc worked must better. The guide mentions hwclock supersedes clock, but it does not say to delete the old clock file which needs to be done (unless the installer was supposed to delete it and it did not, which should be mentioned as well). And udev (to sysinit) should be added to the service that users should check before rebooting. Reproducible: Always
CCing Doug for comment.
"udev in the sysvinit runlevel": see bug 253396 "etc/init.d/clock should be deleted.": did you read the recent openrc ebuilds? 144 if [[ -e ${ROOT}/etc/init.d/clock ]] ; then 145 rm -f "${ROOT}"/etc/init.d/clock 146 fi
