it's normal that the acl_* symbols are not found if the application is not linked against -lacl. these errors harmless, but mighty annoying. --- fakeroot-1.20/libfakeroot.c.orig 2014-03-07 11:20:26.120532847 +0200 +++ fakeroot-1.20/libfakeroot.c 2014-03-07 11:21:26.486872482 +0200 @@ -258,10 +258,12 @@ /* clear dlerror() just in case dlsym() legitimately returns NULL */ msg = dlerror(); *(next_wrap[i].doit)=dlsym(get_libc(), next_wrap[i].name); - if ( (msg = dlerror()) != NULL){ +#ifdef LIBFAKEROOT_DEBUGGING + if ( fakeroot_debug && (msg = dlerror()) != NULL) { fprintf (stderr, "dlsym(%s): %s\n", next_wrap[i].name, msg); /* abort ();*/ } +#endif } }