The summary says it all, local state is kept in the funny /var/lib/lib/fwupd/ location, instead of /var/lib/fwupd/.
Created attachment 547774 [details, diff] Patch for fwupd-1.1.2.ebuild Attached patch fixes it for me.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=088205de6baa9a11d9517a3d1339f46931556e23 commit 088205de6baa9a11d9517a3d1339f46931556e23 Author: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2018-09-24 14:53:27 +0000 Commit: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-09-24 14:55:12 +0000 sys-apps/fwupd: Revbump to fix localstatedir. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/666986 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.49, Repoman-2.3.11 sys-apps/fwupd/{fwupd-1.1.2.ebuild => fwupd-1.1.2-r1.ebuild} | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)