When /etc/init.d/termencoding is started it tries to write to $RC_LIBEXECDIR"/console Obviously this will fail if the root partition isn't writable. On my system with rc_parallel="yes" this caused termencoding to fail, as / still ro when termencoding had been started. Adding "need root" to depend() solved this issue for me.
Btw, this was with openrc-0.8.0 emerge --info: Portage 2.2.0_alpha28 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.5, glibc-2.13-r2, 2.6.38 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.38-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T7300_@_2.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.2 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:30:01 +0000 distcc 3.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p51 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.7.1-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.4 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.8.0 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.21 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.5 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.38 (sys-kernel/linux-headers) Repositories: gentoo java-overlay local Installed sets: @system ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA dlj-1.1 sun-bcla-java-vm PUEL skype-eula AdobeFlash-10.1" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/mnt/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages news nodoc parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="de en" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/mnt/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp" PORTDIR="/mnt/portage/tree" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/mnt/portage/overlays/java-overlay /etc/portage/local" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa avi bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam firefox flac fortran gdbm gdu gif gpm gtk gtk2 iconv icu ipv6 jpeg kde kdehiddenvisibility kipi lcms lzma mad mikmod mmx mmxext mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg opengl openmp pam pango pch pcre pdf perl pic png policykit pppd python qt qt3 qt3support qt4 readline sdl session spell sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs system-sqlite tcpd tiff truetype udev unicode usb vdpau vorbis x264 x86 xcb xinerama xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel usb-audio" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de en" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
This is fixed in git, commit 25049d3. Thanks for the report.
*** Bug 362175 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
