Starting with OpenRC 0.8.0, termencoding started trying to create a directory /lib64/rc/console and then create /lib64/rc/console/unicode before root is mounted rw. Here's the console output: OpenRC 0.8.0 is starting up Gentoo Linux (x86_64) * Mounting /proc ... [ ok ] * Mounting /sys ... [ ok ] * /dev is already mounted * Starting udevd ... [ ok ] * Populating /dev with existing devices through uevents ... [ ok ] * Waiting for uevents to be processed ... [ ok ] * Mounting /dev/pts ... [ ok ] * Mounting /dev/shm ... [ ok ] hwclock | * Setting system clock using the hardware clock [Local Time] ... [ ok ] termencoding | * Setting terminal encoding [UTF-8] ... termencoding |mkdir: cannot create directory `/lib64/rc/console'sysctl | * Configuring kernel parameters ... fsck | * Checking local filesystems ... hostname | * Setting hostname to thinkpad ... [ ok ] fsck |gentoo: clean, 450424/25362432 files, 29166348/101436418 blocks (check in 2 mounts) : Read-only file system termencoding |/lib64/rc/sh/runscript.sh: 260: cannot create /lib64/rc/console/unicode: Directory nonexistent [ ok ] fsck |boot: clean, 16/4016 files, 6758/16064 blocks [ ok ] root | * Remounting root filesystem read/write ... [ ok ] mtab | * Updating /etc/mtab ... [ ok ] [...] Reproducible: Always $ rc-update show dcron | default sysctl | boot acpid | default procfs | boot loopback | default urandom | boot termencoding | boot microcode_ctl | boot dbus | default killprocs | shutdown hostname | boot fsck | boot cupsd | default bootmisc | boot mtab | boot postfix | default mount-ro | shutdown savecache | shutdown udev-postmount | default devfs | sysinit local | nonetwork localmount | boot dhcpcd | default udev | sysinit hwclock | boot dmesg | sysinit swap | boot wpa_supplicant | default root | boot sysklogd | default Portage 2.2.0_alpha29 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.5.2, glibc-2.12.2-r0, 2.6.38.2 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.38.2-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7_CPU_M_620_@_2.67GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.2 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 02:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p8 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.7.1-r1, 3.2 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: 4.5.2 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 local Installed sets: @kde4, @ooffice-tmp, @texlive, @xfce4 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA AdobeFlash-10.1 dlj-1.1" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe -fno-ident -floop-interchange -floop-strip-mine -floop-block -ggdb" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /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="-O2 -march=native -pipe -fno-ident -floop-interchange -floop-strip-mine -floop-block -ggdb" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs buildsyspkg distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages news preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.rit.edu/gentoo/" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--hash-style=gnu" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_COMPRESS="gzip" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--exclude-from=/etc/portage/rsync_excludes" 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="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage/tree/official" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/tree/local" SYNC="rsync://rsync21.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac aalib acl acpi aio alsa amd64 apng audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr chm cli cracklib crypt css cups curl custom-optimization cxx dbus dell dirac dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif expat ffmpeg fftw firefox flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gallium gdu gif git gmp gpm gtk iconv imagemagick imlib inotify java5 java6 jpeg kde kdehiddenvisibility kvm laptop latex lcms libnotify logrotate lqr lzma lzo mad mikmod mmx mmxext mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mplayer mudflap multilib musepack ncurses nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl openmp openssl pam pango pch pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt qt3support qt4 quicktime rar readline resolvconf rtmp samba schroedinger sdl session sndfile speex spell sqlite sqlite3 srt sse sse2 sse3 sse4 ssl ssse3 startup-notification subversion svg sysfs tcpd theora threads tiff tokyocabinet truetype udev unicode usb v4l v4l2 vaapi vcd videos vim-syntax vorbis vpx webkit webp wifi wmf x264 xcb xcomposite xft xorg xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid xvmc xz zip zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" 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 authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif 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="keyboard mouse synaptics evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="arm i386 x86_64" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="arm i386 x86_64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel" XFCE_PLUGINS="clock logout menu" 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_FLAGS
This is already fixed on git. Duplicate of bug #360215. http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/openrc.git;a=commit;h=25049d3e80aeb17d4d62a653cfa8223fae56ddd0
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 360215 ***
