Emerge reportlab-1.20 fails, because emerge want to access tape drive: ... copying demos/rlzope/readme.txt -> /var/tmp/portage/reportlab-1.20/image/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/reportlab/demos/rlzope copying demos/rlzope/rlzope.py -> /var/tmp/portage/reportlab-1.20/image/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/reportlab/demos/rlzope ACCESS DENIED creat64: /dev/st0 tar: /dev/st0: Cannot open: Permission denied tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now tar: /dev/st0: Cannot open: No such device or address tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now man: prepallstrip: strip: i686-pc-linux-gnu-strip --strip-unneeded strip: i686-pc-linux-gnu-strip --strip-unneeded >>> Completed installing reportlab-1.20 into /var/tmp/portage/reportlab-1.20/image/ --------------------------- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY --------------------------- LOG FILE = "/var/log/sandbox/sandbox-dev-python_-_reportlab-1.20-28798.log" creat64: /dev/st0 tarantel ~ # emerge info Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4-hardened, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.12-rc3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-rc3 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/grass60/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ rsync://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo rsync://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://212.219.247.17/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ ftp://ftp6.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://ftp6.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://vlaai.snt.ipv6.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/ http://www.gigaload.org/gentoo.org/" LINGUAS="de fr" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X Xaw3d aalib adns alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cscope cups curl dvd eds emboss encode esd fam flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit kde ldap libg++ libwww lirc mad mikmod motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql nas ncurses nls nptl odbc ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl plotutils png postgres python qt quicktime readline ruby samba scanner sdl slang snmp speex spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis xine xml xml2 xmms xv zlib linguas_de linguas_fr userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
I've removed the tar hack that was causing the sandbox violation. It seems it's no longer needed since reportlab is installing on the correct path. Thanks for the bug report.