My Chromium has recently stopped working, complaining about NSS incompatibilities. After some investigation, I discovered that there are two versions of libnss3.so on my system: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 444460 Feb 21 2007 /usr/lib/mozilla/libnss3.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1103500 May 7 00:10 /usr/lib/libnss3.so.12 The first one is unclaimed by any package, according to equery b. Moving it to /usr/lib/mozilla/libnss3.so.old and creating a symlink in its place to /usr/lib/libnss.so makes Chromium work again. However, whenever I recompile Chromium the target of my symlink gets changed from /usr/lib/libnss3.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/libnss3.so.old. That's right, something in the ebuild wants to use that old binary so much that it actually figures out where I've moved it and symlinks to it! Portage doesn't appear to know anything about these shenanigans, because nothing under /usr/lib/mozilla/ appears in the list of files being copied at the end of Chromium's merge. I'm guessing that some process triggered by the ebuild must do it secretly. I've moved the file now to /usr/lib/mozilla/libnss.so.reallyold and I'm recompiling Chromium to see what it does now. On a possibly related note, Firefox catches SIGABRT on startup, too. I've tried reinstalling mozilla-firefox, xulrunner, chromium and dev-libs/nss but both problems still happen. Currently installed: ---------------------------------------- www-client/chromium-5.0.375.29 USE="mp3 plugins-symlink x264" dev-libs/nss-3.12.6-r1 USE="utils" net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.2.3-r1 USE="alsa dbus libnotify startup-notification -custom-optimization -debug -gnome -java -system-sqlite -wifi www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.6.3 USE="alsa dbus libnotify startup-notification -bindist -custom-optimization -gnome -java -system-sqlite -wifi" splig ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.10.1-r1, 2.6.29-gentoo-r5-splig-3-noagp i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.29-gentoo-r5-splig-3-noagp-i686-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_Processor_3700+-with-gentoo-1.12.13 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 09 May 2010 17:15:02 +0000 distcc 3.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p37 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.10 dev-lang/python: 2.5.4-r3, 2.6.4-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4-r3 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r2, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc: 3.3.6-r1, 4.1.2, 4.3.4 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -ggdb" 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/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" 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/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests candy distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="en_GB.utf8@euro" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en_GB" MAKEOPTS="-j5" 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/kde-sunset /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac aalib acpi alsa avahi bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dga dri dts dv dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk hal iconv ieee1394 ipod ipv6 jpeg kde kdehiddenvisibility lcms libnotify lm_sensors mad mikmod mmx mmxext mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap musicbrainz ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg svga sysfs tcpd tiff truetype unicode usb v4l vorbis x264 x86 xcb xcomposite xinerama xml xorg xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0 bt87x" 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" CAMERAS="sq905" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_GB" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia vesa fbdev" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Interesting. Now Chromium fails to compile because it runs out of disk space. Not my fault, it's never had that problem before. Check this out: splig ~ # du -sh /var/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-5.0.375.29/work/chromium-5.0.375.29/* 4.0K /var/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-5.0.375.29/work/chromium-5.0.375.29/AUTHORS 12K /var/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-5.0.375.29/work/chromium-5.0.375.29/DEPS 4.0K /var/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-5.0.375.29/work/chromium-5.0.375.29/LICENSE 28K /var/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-5.0.375.29/work/chromium-5.0.375.29/Makefile 8.0K /var/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-5.0.375.29/work/chromium-5.0.375.29/PRESUBMIT.py 8.0K /var/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-5.0.375.29/work/chromium-5.0.375.29/WATCHLISTS 2.0M /var/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-5.0.375.29/work/chromium-5.0.375.29/app 5.2M /var/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-5.0.375.29/work/chromium-5.0.375.29/base 9.5M /var/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-5.0.375.29/work/chromium-5.0.375.29/breakpad 364K /var/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-5.0.375.29/work/chromium-5.0.375.29/build 79M /var/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-5.0.375.29/work/chromium-5.0.375.29/chrome 2.4M /var/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-5.0.375.29/work/chromium-5.0.375.29/chrome_frame 4.0K /var/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-5.0.375.29/work/chromium-5.0.375.29/codereview.settings 2.4M /var/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-5.0.375.29/work/chromium-5.0.375.29/courgette 176K /var/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-5.0.375.29/work/chromium-5.0.375.29/gears 616K /var/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-5.0.375.29/work/chromium-5.0.375.29/gfx 24K /var/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-5.0.375.29/work/chromium-5.0.375.29/google_update 728K /var/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-5.0.375.29/work/chromium-5.0.375.29/googleurl 2.2M /var/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-5.0.375.29/work/chromium-5.0.375.29/gpu 452K /var/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-5.0.375.29/work/chromium-5.0.375.29/ipc 3.3M /var/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-5.0.375.29/work/chromium-5.0.375.29/media 110M /var/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-5.0.375.29/work/chromium-5.0.375.29/native_client 11M /var/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-5.0.375.29/work/chromium-5.0.375.29/net 13M /var/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-5.0.375.29/work/chromium-5.0.375.29/o3d 668M /var/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-5.0.375.29/work/chromium-5.0.375.29/out 308K /var/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-5.0.375.29/work/chromium-5.0.375.29/printing 8.0K /var/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-5.0.375.29/work/chromium-5.0.375.29/rlz 2.9M /var/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-5.0.375.29/work/chromium-5.0.375.29/sandbox 3.6M /var/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-5.0.375.29/work/chromium-5.0.375.29/sdch 12K /var/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-5.0.375.29/work/chromium-5.0.375.29/site_scons 996K /var/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-5.0.375.29/work/chromium-5.0.375.29/skia 4.6M /var/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-5.0.375.29/work/chromium-5.0.375.29/testing 560M /var/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-5.0.375.29/work/chromium-5.0.375.29/third_party 6.8M /var/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-5.0.375.29/work/chromium-5.0.375.29/tools 23M /var/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-5.0.375.29/work/chromium-5.0.375.29/v8 2.5M /var/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-5.0.375.29/work/chromium-5.0.375.29/views 5.7M /var/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-5.0.375.29/work/chromium-5.0.375.29/webkit Turns out that /var/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-5.0.375.29/ is taking up 1.5Gb by the time the compile fails. It's not meant to get that big, surely?
I can't reproduce. Maybe it's some .la files weirdness? Try grepping for /usr/lib/mozilla in /etc and /usr. By the way, yes, the compile may take a lot of space. There is bug #319929 to add a warning about that.
Does this output help? splig ~ # grep /usr/lib/mozilla /etc/* /etc/csh.env:setenv CONFIG_PROTECT '/usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown' /etc/csh.env:setenv MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME '/usr/lib/mozilla' Binary file /etc/ld.so.cache matches /etc/ld.so.conf:/usr/lib/mozilla /etc/profile.csh:setenv MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME '/usr/lib/mozilla' /etc/profile.csh:setenv CONFIG_PROTECT '/usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown' /etc/profile.env:export CONFIG_PROTECT='/usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown' /etc/profile.env:export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME='/usr/lib/mozilla' splig ~ # grep /usr/lib/mozilla /etc/*/* grep: /etc/bootsplash/default: No such file or directory /etc/env.d/10mozilla:LDPATH=/usr/lib/mozilla /etc/env.d/10mozilla:MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/lib/mozilla /etc/env.d/10mozilla:CONFIG_PROTECT=/usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref splig ~ # grep /usr/lib/mozilla /usr/*/* 2>/dev/null Binary file /usr/X11R6/atob matches Binary file /usr/X11R6/bltest matches Binary file /usr/X11R6/btoa matches Binary file /usr/X11R6/certcgi matches Binary file /usr/X11R6/checkcert matches Binary file /usr/X11R6/client matches Binary file /usr/X11R6/dbtest matches Binary file /usr/X11R6/derdump matches Binary file /usr/X11R6/digest matches Binary file /usr/X11R6/instinit matches /usr/X11R6/libtool:sys_lib_dlsearch_path_spec="/lib /usr/lib /usr/local/lib //usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/lib /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4 /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6 /usr/lib/nspr /usr/lib/nss /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.1 /usr/lib/mozilla /usr/lib/qca1 /usr/lib/qca2 /usr/lib/qt4 /usr/kde/3.5/lib /usr/qt/3/lib /usr/games/lib /usr/lib/octave-2.1.73 " Binary file /usr/X11R6/makepqg matches Binary file /usr/X11R6/mangle matches /usr/X11R6/mozilla:export MOZILLA_LIBDIR=/usr/lib/mozilla Binary file /usr/X11R6/newuser matches Binary file /usr/X11R6/nspluginscan matches Binary file /usr/X11R6/ocspclnt matches Binary file /usr/X11R6/oidcalc matches Binary file /usr/X11R6/p7content matches Binary file /usr/X11R6/p7env matches Binary file /usr/X11R6/p7sign matches Binary file /usr/X11R6/p7verify matches Binary file /usr/X11R6/pp matches Binary file /usr/X11R6/rsaperf matches Binary file /usr/X11R6/sdrtest matches Binary file /usr/X11R6/selfserv matches Binary file /usr/X11R6/server matches Binary file /usr/X11R6/shlibsign matches Binary file /usr/X11R6/strsclnt matches Binary file /usr/X11R6/symkeyutil matches Binary file /usr/X11R6/tstclnt matches Binary file /usr/X11R6/vfychain matches Binary file /usr/X11R6/vfyserv matches Binary file /usr/bin/atob matches Binary file /usr/bin/bltest matches Binary file /usr/bin/btoa matches Binary file /usr/bin/certcgi matches Binary file /usr/bin/checkcert matches Binary file /usr/bin/client matches Binary file /usr/bin/dbtest matches Binary file /usr/bin/derdump matches Binary file /usr/bin/digest matches Binary file /usr/bin/instinit matches /usr/bin/libtool:sys_lib_dlsearch_path_spec="/lib /usr/lib /usr/local/lib //usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/lib /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4 /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6 /usr/lib/nspr /usr/lib/nss /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.1 /usr/lib/mozilla /usr/lib/qca1 /usr/lib/qca2 /usr/lib/qt4 /usr/kde/3.5/lib /usr/qt/3/lib /usr/games/lib /usr/lib/octave-2.1.73 " Binary file /usr/bin/makepqg matches Binary file /usr/bin/mangle matches /usr/bin/mozilla:export MOZILLA_LIBDIR=/usr/lib/mozilla Binary file /usr/bin/newuser matches Binary file /usr/bin/nspluginscan matches Binary file /usr/bin/ocspclnt matches Binary file /usr/bin/oidcalc matches Binary file /usr/bin/p7content matches Binary file /usr/bin/p7env matches Binary file /usr/bin/p7sign matches Binary file /usr/bin/p7verify matches Binary file /usr/bin/pp matches Binary file /usr/bin/rsaperf matches Binary file /usr/bin/sdrtest matches Binary file /usr/bin/selfserv matches Binary file /usr/bin/server matches Binary file /usr/bin/shlibsign matches Binary file /usr/bin/strsclnt matches Binary file /usr/bin/symkeyutil matches Binary file /usr/bin/tstclnt matches Binary file /usr/bin/vfychain matches Binary file /usr/bin/vfyserv matches Binary file /usr/lib/libltdl.a matches Binary file /usr/lib/libltdl.so matches Binary file /usr/lib/libltdl.so.7 matches Binary file /usr/lib/libltdl.so.7.2.1 matches /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher:# /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox and /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/thunderbird. /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=${MOZILLA_LIBDIR:-"/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox"} /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=${MOZILLA_LIBDIR:-"/usr/lib/mozilla-sunbird"} /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=${MOZILLA_LIBDIR:-"/usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird"} Binary file /usr/openwin/atob matches Binary file /usr/openwin/bltest matches Binary file /usr/openwin/btoa matches Binary file /usr/openwin/certcgi matches Binary file /usr/openwin/checkcert matches Binary file /usr/openwin/client matches Binary file /usr/openwin/dbtest matches Binary file /usr/openwin/derdump matches Binary file /usr/openwin/digest matches Binary file /usr/openwin/instinit matches /usr/openwin/libtool:sys_lib_dlsearch_path_spec="/lib /usr/lib /usr/local/lib //usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/lib /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4 /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6 /usr/lib/nspr /usr/lib/nss /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.1 /usr/lib/mozilla /usr/lib/qca1 /usr/lib/qca2 /usr/lib/qt4 /usr/kde/3.5/lib /usr/qt/3/lib /usr/games/lib /usr/lib/octave-2.1.73 " Binary file /usr/openwin/makepqg matches Binary file /usr/openwin/mangle matches /usr/openwin/mozilla:export MOZILLA_LIBDIR=/usr/lib/mozilla Binary file /usr/openwin/newuser matches Binary file /usr/openwin/nspluginscan matches Binary file /usr/openwin/ocspclnt matches Binary file /usr/openwin/oidcalc matches Binary file /usr/openwin/p7content matches Binary file /usr/openwin/p7env matches Binary file /usr/openwin/p7sign matches Binary file /usr/openwin/p7verify matches Binary file /usr/openwin/pp matches Binary file /usr/openwin/rsaperf matches Binary file /usr/openwin/sdrtest matches Binary file /usr/openwin/selfserv matches Binary file /usr/openwin/server matches Binary file /usr/openwin/shlibsign matches Binary file /usr/openwin/strsclnt matches Binary file /usr/openwin/symkeyutil matches Binary file /usr/openwin/tstclnt matches Binary file /usr/openwin/vfychain matches Binary file /usr/openwin/vfyserv matches
