dev-ruby/locale-2.0.5-r1 tries to run allison when present and generates the following sandbox violations because of it: Generating HTML... Allison 2 template (c) 2007 Cloudburst, LLC ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/allison-2.0.3/cache/STYLE ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/allison-2.0.3/cache/FILE_INDEX ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/allison-2.0.3/cache/JAVASCRIPT ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/allison-2.0.3/cache/BODY ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/allison-2.0.3/cache/FR_INDEX_BODY ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/allison-2.0.3/cache/METHOD_INDEX ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/allison-2.0.3/cache/SRC_PAGE ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/allison-2.0.3/cache/METHOD_LIST ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/allison-2.0.3/cache/FILE_PAGE ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/allison-2.0.3/cache/INDEX ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/allison-2.0.3/cache/FONTS ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/allison-2.0.3/cache/CLASS_INDEX ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/allison-2.0.3/cache/CLASS_PAGE
Fixed by removing the use of allison altogether.