so, during a meeting, i installed Gentoo Linux and did the following steps, but "unfortunately" everything worked fine for me.
# cat /etc/gentoo-release
Gentoo Base System release 2.4.1
# update gentoo and install libraries
sudo bash
emerge --sync
emerge --ask dev-vcs/mercurial
emerge --ask dev-libs/openssl
# Install Tcl in /usr/local/ns
wget https://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/tcl/tcl8.6.8-src.tar.gz
tar zxvf tcl8.6.8-src.tar.gz
cd tcl8.6.8/unix
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/ns
make install
cd ../..
# Install NaviServer from Bitbucket
hg clone https://gustafn@bitbucket.org/naviserver/naviserver
cd naviserver
sh autogen.sh
./configure
make
make install
# as normal user (non-root)
gentoo /home/vagrant # /usr/local/ns/bin/nsd -c
[15/Jun/2018:08:20:44][23783.7f66110e5740][-main-] Notice: OpenSSL 1.0.2o 27 Mar 2018 initialized
[15/Jun/2018:08:20:44][23783.7f66110e5740][-main-] Notice: binder: started
[15/Jun/2018:08:20:44][23783.7f66110e5740][-main-] Notice: nsmain: NaviServer/4.99.17d2 starting
[15/Jun/2018:08:20:44][23783.7f66110e5740][-main-] Notice: nsmain: security info: uid=1000, euid=1000, gid=1000, egid=1000
[15/Jun/2018:08:20:44][23783.7f66110e5740][-main-] Notice: nsmain: Tcl version: 8.6.8
...
So, what's different in your setup?
