Unsure if this is the same as bug 13405, but I do not think so. Anyway, if the USE flag 'snmp' isn't set, then ethereal will trigger a sandbox violation. [...] >>> Completed installing into /var/tmp/portage/ethereal-0.9.8-r1/image/ --------------------------- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY --------------------------- LOG FILE = "/tmp/sandbox-ethereal-0.9.8-r1-30786.log" open_wr: /usr/share/snmp/mibs/.index open_wr: /usr/share/snmp/mibs/.index -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [...] In other words, it will index the mibs even when told not to bother about snmp. Ebuild file has the following code to take care of the case where snmp is set, so adding snmp to USE allows it to install: if use snmp then addwrite "/usr/share/snmp/mibs/" fi Now, whether it's best to just remove the condition here or actually find out why it's trying to do snmp-stuff when it shouldn't, that's up to the ebuild-maintainer to find out. :-)
Actually its Bug 12626
fixed :)
