"/var/lib/init.d" needs to exist

[bambam_]

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 * For Gentoo to function properly, "/var/lib/init.d" needs to exist.
 * Please mount your root partition read/write, and execute:

 *    # mkdir -p /var/lib/init.d

Give root password for maintenance
(or type Control-D to continue):
bam # mkdir -p /var/lib/init.d
mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/lib/init.d': Permission denied
bam # cd /var/lib
bam /var/lib # ls
ls: init.d: Permission denied
dbus dhcpc misc ntop ntp portage smaba sasl2 scrollkeeper tor xdm xkb
bam /var/lib # stat init.d
stat: cannot stat `init.d': Permission denied
bam /var/lib # rm -r init.d
stat: cannot lstat `init.d': Permission denied
bam /var/lib # chmod 777 init.d
chown: cannot access `init.d': Permission denied
bam /var/lib # mount | grep "/ "
/dev/hda5 on / type jfs (rw,noatime)
bam /var/lib # touch foo; ll foo; rm foo
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 Jul  3 09:45 foo
removed `foo'
bam /var/lib # mount -o remount,ro /
bam /var/lib # fsck /
[..snip..]
Filesystem is clean.

What is going on?

I cannot even remove the lib directory (after archiving the other stuff) because that "init.d" is inaccessible and won't allow me to rmdir /var/lib

[steveb]

If I am not wrong, then after pressing Control-D your filesystem is anyway in read only mode. Could you do FIRST a:

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fsck -C -a -T /

and then do the:

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mount -o remount,rw /

and check if you can delete the files you want to delete?

cheers

SteveB