portage works just fine with sandbox and 2.0.51_rc7 but when i have FEAUTRES=sandbox and 2.0.51_rc9, things make me sad :( i2 ~ # emerge portage Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-apps/portage-2.0.51_rc9 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) portage-2.0.51_rc9.tar.bz2 i2 tmp # i2 ~ # emerge portage -d Calculating dependencies Parent: None Depstring: sys-apps/portage Candidates: ['sys-apps/portage'] ebuild: sys-apps/portage-2.0.51_rc9 binpkg: None - Parent: ebuild / sys-apps/portage-2.0.51_rc9 merge Depstring: !bootstrap? ( sys-devel/patch ) !build? ( >=sys-apps/sed-4.0.5 dev-python/python-fch ksum >=dev-lang/python-2.2.1 sys-apps/debianutils >=app-shells/bash-2.05a ) selinux? ( >=dev-py thon/python-selinux-2.15 ) Candidates: [] Exiting... ebuild / sys-apps/portage-2.0.51_rc9 merge Exiting... None . ..done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-apps/portage-2.0.51_rc9 to / + dyn_clean + rm -rf /var/tmp/portage/portage-2.0.51_rc9/image + hasq keeptemp autoaddcvs ccache distlocks noauto nodoc noinfo noman sandbox sfperms + local x + local me=keeptemp + shift + for x in '"$@"' + '[' autoaddcvs == keeptemp ']' + for x in '"$@"' + '[' ccache == keeptemp ']' + for x in '"$@"' + '[' distlocks == keeptemp ']' + for x in '"$@"' + '[' noauto == keeptemp ']' + for x in '"$@"' + '[' nodoc == keeptemp ']' + for x in '"$@"' + '[' noinfo == keeptemp ']' + for x in '"$@"' + '[' noman == keeptemp ']' + for x in '"$@"' + '[' sandbox == keeptemp ']' + for x in '"$@"' + '[' sfperms == keeptemp ']' + return 1 + rm -rf /var/tmp/portage/portage-2.0.51_rc9/temp/eclass-debug.log + hasq keepwork autoaddcvs ccache distlocks noauto nodoc noinfo noman sandbox sfperms + local x + local me=keepwork + shift + for x in '"$@"' + '[' autoaddcvs == keepwork ']' + for x in '"$@"' + '[' ccache == keepwork ']' + for x in '"$@"' + '[' distlocks == keepwork ']' + for x in '"$@"' + '[' noauto == keepwork ']' + for x in '"$@"' + '[' nodoc == keepwork ']' + for x in '"$@"' + '[' noinfo == keepwork ']' + for x in '"$@"' + '[' noman == keepwork ']' + for x in '"$@"' + '[' sandbox == keepwork ']' + for x in '"$@"' + '[' sfperms == keepwork ']' + return 1 + rm -rf /var/tmp/portage/portage-2.0.51_rc9/.compiled + rm -rf /var/tmp/portage/portage-2.0.51_rc9/.unpacked + rm -rf /var/tmp/portage/portage-2.0.51_rc9/.installed + rm -rf /var/tmp/portage/portage-2.0.51_rc9/build-info + rm -rf /var/tmp/portage/portage-2.0.51_rc9/work + '[' -f /var/tmp/portage/portage-2.0.51_rc9/.unpacked ']' + true + set +x >>> md5 src_uri ;-) portage-2.0.51_rc9.tar.bz2 + dyn_setup + '[' GNU == Linux ']' + pkg_setup + return + set +x i2 tmp # Portage 2.0.51_rc9 (default-linux/ia64/2004.3, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.4.20040619-r1, 2.6.9-rc1 ia64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-rc1 ia64 Gentoo Base System version 1.5.3 distcc 2.17 ia64-unknown-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ia64 ~ia64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="ia64-unknown-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks noauto nodoc noinfo noman sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/pub/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/root/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cscope cups encode esd f77 fam flac foomaticdb gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 ia64 imagemagick imlib jpeg kde libg++ libwww mikmod motif mozilla mysql ncurses oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline ruby samba sdl spell ssl tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype xml2 xmms xprint xv zlib"
nick found this one in sandbox.c ... usage of buffer[sizeof(buffer)] instead of buffer[sizeof(buffer)-1] was causing it
*** Bug 68187 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***