today I remove amsn-0.97.2 and depcleaned the dependences, like tk tcl snack and tls. then i decide to reinstall amsn and having this answer during configuration ( after installed the deps before) >>> Emerging (5 of 5) net-im/amsn-0.97.2 * amsn-0.97.2.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking amsn-0.97.2.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/net-im/amsn-0.97.2/work * Applying amsn-0.97_rc1-nostrip.patch ... [ ok ] * Running autoconf ... [ ok ] >>> Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/net-im/amsn-0.97.2/work >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/net-im/amsn-0.97.2/work/amsn-0.97.2 ... ./configure --prefix=/usr --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --disable-debug --disable-static checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc accepts -g... yes checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++... i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes checking whether i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ accepts -g... yes checking tcl build dir... ERROR: ld.so: object 'libsandbox.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. using tcl library in /usr/lib checking tk build dir... using tk library in /usr/lib checking for main in -lstdc++... yes checking how to run the C preprocessor... i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -E checking for X... libraries , headers checking for gethostbyname... yes checking for connect... yes checking for remove... yes checking for shmat... yes checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... yes checking for png_read_info in -lpng... yes checking png.h usability... yes checking png.h presence... yes checking for png.h... yes checking for jpeg_CreateDecompress in -ljpeg... yes checking jpeglib.h usability... yes checking jpeglib.h presence... yes checking for jpeglib.h... yes checking jerror.h usability... yes checking jerror.h presence... yes checking for jerror.h... yes checking for ftello... yes checking for fseeko... yes checking for getpt... yes checking for strcasestr... yes checking for memmem... yes checking for dlopen... no checking for pthread_create in -lpthread... yes checking if mmx should be used... yes configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating utils/linux/capture/config.h compile time options summary ============================ X11 : yes Tcl : 8.4 TK : 8.4 DEBUG : no STATIC : no make -j2 you can see there the voice "checking tcl build dir... ERROR: ld.so: object 'libsandbox.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored." and after installation, i try to start amsn receiving : Application initialization failed: Can't find a usable tk.tcl in the following directories: /usr/lib/tcl8.4/tk8.4 /usr/lib/tk8.4 /lib/tk8.4 /usr/library /library /tk8.4.18/library /usr/lib/tk8.4/tk.tcl: no event type or button # or keysym no event type or button # or keysym while executing (other tcl/tk code) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.remove amsn 2.reinstall amsn 3.happyyyyyyyyyyy Actual Results: unable to use amsn emerge --info Portage 2.2_rc31 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, 2.6.28-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.28-gentoo-r5-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_M_processor_1.86GHz-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:00:08 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.7 dev-lang/python: 2.5.4-r2 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.unina.it/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo " LANG="it_IT" LC_ALL="it_IT" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="it" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/science /usr/local/portage/layman/pro-audio /usr/local/portage/layman/desktop-effects /usr/local/portage/layman/armagetron" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aac aalib acl acpi alsa audiofile berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdparanoia cdr cli cpudetection cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dts dv dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo exif fam flac foomatic foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimp gpm gstreamer gtk hal i8x0 iconv innodb isdnlog java jpeg kde lcms ldap libnotify mad midi mikmod mmx mmxext mng mod_php mp3 mpeg mudflap musepack ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd threads tiff timidity truetype usb vorbis wifi win32codecs wmf x86 xine xml xml2 xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="mouse keyboard synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="it" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fglrx" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
The first one is bug 266673. The second one is bug 225999 (which is not fixed in the stable tree).
Your portage is somehow broken, re-install it
