* Creating tmpfiles.d entries (sysinit) ... install: cannot create regular file ‘/var/log/wtmp’: No such file or directory install: cannot create regular file ‘/var/log/btmp’: No such file or directory install: cannot create directory ‘/var/cache’: Read-only file system install: cannot change owner and permissions of ‘/var/tmp’: No such file or directory install: cannot change owner and permissions of ‘/tmp/.XIM-unix’: No such file or directory install: cannot change owner and permissions of ‘/tmp/.font-unix’: No such file or directory install: cannot change owner and permissions of ‘/tmp/.Test-unix’: No such file or directory [ !! ] /var is on a separate partition, so it is probably just not accessible at the moment. What openrc tries to do with the files in /tmp, I have no idea at all… Reproducible: Always Portage 2.2.0_alpha141 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.7.2, glibc-2.15-r3, 3.6.2-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.6.2-gentoo-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_X2_Dual_Core_Processor_5000+-with-gentoo-2.2 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:45:01 +0000 distcc 3.2rc1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.2_p37 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.12 dev-lang/python: 2.7.3-r2, 3.2.3-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.9-r1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.27.1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.10.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.6, 1.12.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.22.90 sys-devel/gcc: 4.7.2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r4 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.6 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.15-r3 Repositories: gentoo systemd ambro-cross local enlightenment kde sunrise g-ctan ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-pipe -O2 -march=athlon64-sse3" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/openvpn/easy-rsa /usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0 /usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-3.0 /var/lib/neatx/home" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="${EPREFIX}/etc/gconf /etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /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="-pipe -O2 -march=athlon64-sse3" DISTDIR="/var/cache/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--depclean-lib-check n --with-bdeps y --keep-going" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs buildsyspkg compressdebug config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--hash-style=gnu" LINGUAS="de" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/var/cache/portage/packages" PORTAGE_COMPRESS="xz" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/var/cache/portage/gentoo" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/cache/portage/layman/systemd /var/cache/portage/layman/ambro-cross /var/cache/portage/local /var/cache/portage/overlays/enlightenment /var/cache/portage/overlays/kde /var/cache/portage/overlays/sunrise /var/lib/g-ctan" […] Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON
This is fixed in commit 1a8cd5f. The issue was that we were running the tmpfiles.d process too early. It should have only been run after all local filesystems were mounted.