Well, I'd try the option WIPE_TMP in conf.d/bootmisc. When this option is setted, I can't login into KDE 3.4 during the login the X session crash and I got back to the KDM. Unsetting of WIPE_TMP solve the problem. In my opinion this is because, when removing X11 and ICE files from /tmp they weren't created. Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.53GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.11 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/jetty/etc /opt/openjms/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="de_DE.utf8" LC_ALL="de_DE.utf8" LINGUAS="de" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X X509 a52 aac aalib accessibility acl acpi acpi4linux activefilter aim alsa ansi apache2 ares arts artworkextra async audiofile avalon avi bash-completion berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts bluetooth bonobo brltty browserplugin bsh bzip2 bzlib cap caps cddb cdf cdparanoia cdr cdrom cgi chroot clanJavaScript clanVoice codecs commercial cpdflib crypt ctype cups curl curlwrappers dba dga dio directfb divx4linux djbfft dmx dnd doc dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread ecc elf emboss encode erandom esd examples exif expat extensions f77 faac faad fam fastcgi fax fbcon fdftk ffmpeg fftw flac flash flood font-server foomaticdb fortran fpx freetype gcj gd gdbm geoip ggi gif gimp gimpprint glade glut gnokii gnome gnome-print gnutls gphoto2 gps graphviz gs gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml gui guile hal hbci hdf hub hyperwave-api iconv icq idea ieee1394 image imagemagick imap imlib inifile innodb intl iodbc ipv6 irda irmc isdn jabber jack jack-tmpfs jai java javadoc javamail javascript jbig jce jikes jimi jit jms jmx joystick jp2 jpeg jpeg2k junit justify jython kcal kde kdexdeltas kerberos kqemu latex lcd lcms ldap lesstif libcaca libdsk libg++ libwww lirc lm_sensors log4j logitech-mouse logrotate ltsp lua lzo lzw lzw-tiff mad mailbox maildir mailwrapper mbox mcal mcve md5sum mhash mikmod mime ming mixer mmap mmx mmx2 mng moneyplex monkey motif mozdevelop mozilla mp3 mpeg mpeg4 mpi mplayer mppe-mppc msession msn mysql mysqli ncurses network nis nls nntp nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntlm nvidia nviz objc odbc ogg oggvorbis openexr opengl oscar oss pam pam_chroot pam_console pam_timestamp pccts pcntl pcre pcsc-lite pda pdf pdflib perl pfpro php physfs pic pie png posix postgres postgresql povray ppds print procmail pthreads pwdb python qt quicktime quotas rdesktop readline real regexp rtc ruby samba sasl scanner sdl session silc skey slang slp smartcard smime sms sndfile snmp soap sockets socks5 softmmu sox spamassassin speex spell spl sse sse2 ssl streamzap subversion svg svga symlink sysvipc szip tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads tidy tiff timidity tokenizer toolbar transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts ucs2 unicode usb userlocales vidix visualization vorbis wddx wifi win32codecs winbind wmf wsconvert wxgtk1 wxwin wxwindows xalan xerces xine xinerama xml xml-rpc xml2 xmms xosd xpm xprint xscreensaver xsl xv xvid xvmc yahoo yaz yv12 zlib fcdsl_cards_fcdsl video_cards_nvidia linguas_de userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS
Well it is fixed in svn, but not in portage, but it should... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 99679 ***
