Hi all,
This all happens on an up to date openrc machine with the profile default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/plasma

I've added a few hooks to the emerge process via the bashrc that is in /etc/portage. One of the things I do upon emerge failure is kill vlc, which would have been playing a random song, and then attempt to start alsaplayer[1] with a specific song. This means that I can be pottering around the house/shed and if the "failure song" starts playing, I know something is up. The problem is getting the failure song to play.

If I log in as my usual user, alsaplayer will run the song. If I then "su" into root, I'm in wheel, alsaplayer will play the song. The problem is that when the emerge runs, then fails, alsaplayer can't appear to fire up. When an emerge fails, I get the usual error listings then the following:

 * ACCESS DENIED:  open_wr:      /dev/snd/controlC0
 * ACCESS DENIED:  open_wr:      /dev/snd/controlC0
ALSA lib /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/alsa-lib-1.1.9/work/alsa-lib-1.1.9/src/confmisc.c:674:(snd_determine_driver) could not open control for card 0 ALSA lib /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/alsa-lib-1.1.9/work/alsa-lib-1.1.9/src/conf.c:3572:(snd_config_hooks_call) function snd_config_hook_load_for_all_cards returned error: Permission denied
....
...
..
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Amongst this stuff is a line:

LOG FILE: "/var/log/sandbox/sandbox-20431.log"

which I think confirms my suspicions that something is wrong with my sandbox as I also get this error when the email fails and just before the failure hook, running alsaplayer, is run:

ERROR: ld.so: object 'libsandbox.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.

Are there any emerge/sandbox gurus out there who might have an idea as to what's going on? Any thoughts are greatly apreciated,

        Andrew


[1] vlc won't play as root hence I tried alsaplayer

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