>/etc/X/xorg.conf file? > It might be that with your video card you *must* have an xorg.conf, although > I > think that most cards will run with a basic /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-x11- > input.fdi
this dir is empty....? > I have not seen the errors you are getting in your log before, but I noticed > libc.so.6 - have you run revdep-rebuild -p -i or revdep-rebuild -p -i -- > library libc.so.6 just in case? revdep-rebuild is clean! emerge @preserved-rebuild -p These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] sys-fs/reiserfsprogs-3.6.19-r2 [ebuild R ] sys-apps/util-linux-2.16.1 [ebuild R ] sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.0.6-r2 [ebuild R ] gnome-base/libbonoboui-2.24.1 [ebuild R ] net-libs/webkit-gtk-1.1.10 [ebuild R ] media-gfx/graphviz-2.24.0-r2 [ebuild R ] x11-libs/openmotif-2.3.2 [ebuild R ] sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.41.9 [ebuild R ] x11-libs/libSM-1.1.1 [ebuild R ] sys-apps/hal-0.5.13-r2 [ebuild R ] media-libs/jasper-1.900.1-r3 [ebuild R ] net-libs/libproxy-0.2.3-r2 [ebuild R ] gnome-base/libgnomeui-2.24.1 [ebuild R ] x11-libs/libXt-1.0.7-r1 [ebuild R ] sys-apps/pmount-0.9.20 [ebuild R ] x11-libs/libXpm-3.5.8 [ebuild R ] media-libs/t1lib-5.1.2 [ebuild R ] media-libs/giflib-4.1.6-r1 [ebuild R ] media-gfx/imagemagick-6.5.7.0 [ebuild R ] media-libs/libcaca-0.99_beta16 [ebuild R ] app-text/texlive-core-2008-r7 [ebuild R ] app-text/xdvik-22.84.14 I've rebuilt these same packages over several times. I think the @preserved-rebuild tool is bonkers.... ideas? James