How to reproduse: Step 1: emerge openntpd (3.7_p1 or 3.9_p1) Step 2: ntpd -d Result: # ntpd -d fatal: bad privsep dir permissions dispatch_imsg in main: pipe closed Lost child: child exited Terminating Wanted result: time is corrected emerge info: Portage 2.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-vanilla, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor Gentoo Base System version 1.12.4 ccache version 2.3 [disabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" 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/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/src/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LC_ALL="nn_NO" LINGUAS="nn no nb en" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X a52 aac acl aim alsa amp apache2 apm arts audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 calendar caps cdb cdparanoia cdr cli crypt cups dbus dbx dga dio dlloader doc dri dv dvd dvdread eds emboss encode evo examples exif fbcon ffmpeg flac flash foomaticdb fortran ftp gb gcj gdbm gif gmp gnustep gpm gstreamer hal hardened icq imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog jabber java javascript jikes joystick jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kdexdeltas ladcca lcms libg++ libgda libwww lirc lm_sensors mad memlimit mikmod mime mmx motif mp3 mpeg mpi msn mule ncurses nls nocd nptl odbc ofx ogg oggvorbis openal opengl pam pcre pda pdf pdflib perl png posix ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection ruby samba sasl scanner sdl session shorten silc sockets source sox speex spell spl ssl svg symlink sysvipc tcpd tetex theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb usepackagedmakefiles v4l v4l2 vcd videos vorbis wmf xface xinerama xml xmms xorg xosd xpm xv xvid yahoo yaz zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev kernel_linux linguas_nn linguas_no linguas_nb linguas_en userland_GNU video_cards_apm video_cards_ark video_cards_ati video_cards_chips video_cards_cirrus video_cards_cyrix video_cards_dummy video_cards_fbdev video_cards_glint video_cards_i128 video_cards_i740 video_cards_i810 video_cards_imstt video_cards_mga video_cards_neomagic video_cards_nsc video_cards_nv video_cards_rendition video_cards_s3 video_cards_s3virge video_cards_savage video_cards_siliconmotion video_cards_sis video_cards_sisusb video_cards_tdfx video_cards_tga video_cards_trident video_cards_tseng video_cards_v4l video_cards_vesa video_cards_vga video_cards_via video_cards_vmware video_cards_voodoo" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Read the message the init script gives you and do it. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 108537 ***
