xsltproc accesses web during installation of GNOME packages to read a DTD, most likely. The Makefile(s) should be changed to work with a local copy. wopr-mobile ~ # lsof|grep xsltproc xsltproc 22997 root cwd DIR 3,1 520 3151602 /var/tmp/portage/gnome-applets-2.12.1-r2/work/gnome-applets-2.12.1/charpick/help xsltproc 22997 root rtd DIR 3,1 528 2 / xsltproc 22997 root txt REG 3,1 16448 1270753 /usr/bin/xsltproc xsltproc 22997 root mem REG 0,0 0 [heap] (stat: No such file or directory) xsltproc 22997 root mem REG 3,1 68728 2772416 /lib/libresolv-2.3.5.so xsltproc 22997 root mem REG 3,1 18308 2771440 /lib/libnss_dns-2.3.5.so xsltproc 22997 root mem REG 3,1 35288 2768939 /lib/libnss_files-2.3.5.so xsltproc 22997 root mem REG 3,1 1214968 2768684 /lib/tls/libc-2.3.5.so xsltproc 22997 root mem REG 3,1 154072 2768012 /lib/tls/libm-2.3.5.so xsltproc 22997 root mem REG 3,1 68460 146244 /lib/libz.so.1.2.3 xsltproc 22997 root mem REG 3,1 10484 2771581 /lib/libdl-2.3.5.so xsltproc 22997 root mem REG 3,1 1133648 1731123 /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2.6.22 xsltproc 22997 root mem REG 3,1 11008 493653 /usr/lib/libgpg-error.so.0.1.4 xsltproc 22997 root mem REG 3,1 75304 2773975 /lib/libnsl-2.3.5.so xsltproc 22997 root mem REG 3,1 319044 494643 /usr/lib/libgcrypt.so.11.2.0 xsltproc 22997 root mem REG 3,1 65552 1270837 /usr/lib/libexslt.so.0.8.12 xsltproc 22997 root mem REG 3,1 188948 1271011 /usr/lib/libxslt.so.1.1.15 xsltproc 22997 root mem REG 3,1 24336 178885 /usr/lib/libsandbox.so.0.0.0 xsltproc 22997 root mem REG 3,1 104058 2774115 /lib/ld-2.3.5.so xsltproc 22997 root 0u CHR 136,0 2 /dev/pts/0 xsltproc 22997 root 1u CHR 136,0 2 /dev/pts/0 xsltproc 22997 root 2u CHR 136,0 2 /dev/pts/0 xsltproc 22997 root 3r REG 3,1 22754 3160609 /var/tmp/portage/gnome-applets-2.12.1-r2/work/gnome-applets-2.12.1/charpick/help/uk/char-palette.xml xsltproc 22997 root 4u IPv4 36973 TCP wopr-mobile:40700->www.oasis-open.org:http (CLOSE_WAIT) xsltproc 22997 root 5u IPv4 36981 TCP wopr-mobile:40702->www.oasis-open.org:http (SYN_SENT) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.53_rc5 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.13-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r4 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1500MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre9 dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.13 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-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig cvs digest distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms sign strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" LINGUAS="de" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X a52 aac acpi alsa avi berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin cairo cdr crypt cups curl dbus divx4linux dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd exif fame firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif glitz gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg libg++ libwww lzo mad matroska mikmod mjpeg mmx mng mono moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nomotif nptl nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline spell sse sse2 ssl svg tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vorbis win32codecs wmf xml2 xv xvid zlib linguas_de userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS
Please provide more specific information as to which packages are producing this behaviour. Most likely there's something wrong with your XML catalogs, which causes xsltproc to look for the DTDs online, but we need to see the actual emerge logs in order to study this problem further.
The problem seems to be gone, at least I cannot reproduce it anymore.