Trying to emerge openoffice-bin-1.1.2 fails with an error about unable to load /lib/libsandbox.so. This reminded me that I had installed openoffice-bin-1.1.1 using the amd64 tech notes about. The current version of the tech notes no longer have the suggestion. A cached google page, http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/technotes.xml?part=2&chap=3, included the hint. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~amd64 /usr/bin/emerge openoffice-bin - fails 2.ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~amd64 FEATURES="-sandbox" /usr/bin/emerge openoffice-bin - works 3. Actual Results: The normal install fails each time with the error unable to load /lib/libsandbox.so Expected Results: Either the amd64 tech notes should be restored to use FEATURES="-sandbox" or the ebuild should do it automatically. emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r8 (default-amd64-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.4.20040605-r0, 2.6.7-gentoo-r6) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.7-gentoo-r6 x86_64 4 Gentoo Base System version 1.5.1 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.tucdemonic.org/gentoo ftp://ftp.mirrors.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo/ http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa amd64 apache2 apm avi berkdb cdr crypt cscope cups dvd dvdr encode esd flac foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib joystick jpeg kde libg++ libwww lirc mad matroska mikmod motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses net nogcj nvidia oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png ppds python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl tcltk tcpd tiff transcode truetype usb xinerama xml2 xmms xv zlib"
it's a known limitation... either fix your system by doing 'FEATURES="-sandbox" USE="-gcj multilib" emerge gcc portage' to get a 32bit sandbox, or disable sandbox. as for documentation, this limitation is mentioned in our errata last i knew and has been since i started using gentoo on amd64. i'll check again once www.gentoo.org is back up, but i'm pretty sure it's still there.