specifically nvidia-drivers but others as well of many, if not all versions fail with sandbox access violation summary. Tested on 3 of my boxes that happen to use different versions of nvidia-drivers. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install a 2.6.23 kernel 2. emerge nvidia-drivers Actual Results: rc/nv/.nvidia.mod.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.2.1/include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -include include/linux/autoconf.h -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Os -pipe -msoft-float -mregparm=3 -freg-struct-return -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=athlon -ffreestanding -maccumulate-outgoing-args -DCONFIG_AS_CFI=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SIGNAL_FRAME=1 -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-stack-protector -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(nvidia.mod)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(nvidia)" -DMODULE -c -o /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-100.14.19/work/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.19-pkg0/usr/src/nv/nvidia.mod.o /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-100.14.19/work/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.19-pkg0/usr/src/nv/nvidia.mod.c ld -m elf_i386 -r --build-id -o /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-100.14.19/work/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.19-pkg0/usr/src/nv/nvidia.ko /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-100.14.19/work/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.19-pkg0/usr/src/nv/nvidia.o /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-100.14.19/work/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.19-pkg0/usr/src/nv/nvidia.mod.o NVIDIA: left KBUILD. >>> Source compiled. --------------------------- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY --------------------------- LOG FILE = "/var/log/sandbox/sandbox-x11-drivers_-_nvidia-drivers-100.14.19-12311.log" open_wr: /usr/src/linux-2.6.23-gentoo/null.gcda open_wr: /usr/src/linux-2.6.23-gentoo/null.gcda open_wr: /usr/src/linux-2.6.23-gentoo/null.gcda open_wr: /usr/src/linux-2.6.23-gentoo/null.gcda open_wr: /usr/src/linux-2.6.23-gentoo/null.gcda --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# emerge --info Portage 2.1.3.12 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.2.1, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.22-gentoo-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.22-gentoo-r8 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP Timestamp of tree: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:00:08 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.1-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0_rc4-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.22-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -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/config /var/bind" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/ http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo http://mirrors.acm.cs.rpi.edu/gentoo/" LANG="en_US.utf8" MAKEOPTS="-j2" 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 --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/nx /usr/portage/local" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac accessability acl acpi adns aiglx aim alsa apache2 arts audiofile bash-completion bcmath berkdb bidi bindinst bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 cairo calendar caps cdr cli cracklib crypt cups curlwrappers dbus dedicated dga dio divx divx4linux dlloader dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread eds emacs emacs-w3 emboss encode erandom esd ethereal evo examples expat fam fastcgi fbcon ffmpeg firefox font fortran ftp gd gdbm geoip gif glitz glut gnome gnusetup gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk gtkhtml hal hardened iconv imap immqt-bc inifile innodb ipv6 isdnlog ithreads java javascript jp2 jpeg jpeg2k kde kerberos krb4 ldap libcaca libclamv live lzo mad maildir mailwrapper midi mikmod milter mime ming mmap mmx mono motif mozbranding mp3 mpeg mpi msn mudflap musicbrainz ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia oav objc ogg opengl openmp oracle oscar oss pam pcre pdf perl php pic png portaudio posix pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline real realmedia reflection samba sdl session shared spell spl sqlite sse ssl svg symlink tcltktcpd tcpd test threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode urandom usb usepackagedmakefiles userlocales utempter vcd vhosts videos vorbis win32codecs wmf wxwindows x86 xcomposite xinerama xml xorg xpm xprint xrandr xv xvid xvmc yahoo zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="cmpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv vesa" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 135745 ***
bug 135745 is over a year old and this bug only exists on 2.6.23 kernels, pointing linux symlink at any other kernel sources , modules build fine.