While booting I got errors: sh: /etc/splash/livedvd-12.0/scripts/rc_exit-post: Permission denied sh: /etc/splash/livedvd-12.0/scripts/rc_init-pre: Permission denied After chmod a+x /etc/splash/livedvd-12.0/scripts/* everything is ok.
Confirming, just had the same problem on ~amd64, `chmod +x` fixed it.
cannot reproduce.
The problem is gone now, because the ebuild was recently fixed, see bug 447632.