Sorry in advance for reporting a bug on a hardmasked package. Don't know if I'm supposed to do that or not... but I guess this is how bugs are discovered and fixed... So today when "emerge -Dup world"ing I was required to unmask some gnome packages as gnome 2.10 seems to be requiring more and more hardmasked 2.11 stuff... they include... >=dev-libs/glib-2.7.7 >=x11-libs/gtk+-2.7.5 >=gnome-base/libgnomecanvas-2.11.1 >=gnome-base/libgnomeui-2.11.2 >=gnome-base/gconf-2.11.90 they all emerged/compiled fine, but when I restarted gnome I got an error which told me: -=-=-error I got-=-=- There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon. Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work correctly. The Settings Daemon restarted too many times. The last error message was: Child process did not give an error message, unknown failure occurred GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in. -=-=-error I got-=-=- After a while the error timed out, resulting in gnome loading, although without a background, panels, etc. I ran /usr/X11R6/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon to see what the error might be. $ /usr/X11R6/libexec $ ./gnome-settings-daemon ./gnome-settings-daemon: error while loading shared libraries: libgnome-menu.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Ah, a missing library! I couldn't find this libgnome-menu.so.0, so I tried: ln -s /usr/lib/libgnome-menu.so /usr/lib/libgnome-menu.so.0 and restarted GNOME. This time, it seemed to load GNOME no problem. (Though the panels seem to have freaked out and quit, but that's another bug for another time...) Hope this is helpful. Perhaps a symlink should be added to the affected package (not sure which one it was that would cause this...). W now to investigate the death of the panels... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: # emerge info Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 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="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -pipe -O2 -mtune=k8 -ftracer -fprefetch-loop-arrays -funroll-loops" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -pipe -O2 -mtune=k8 -ftracer -fprefetch-loop-arrays -funroll-loops" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="rsync://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo/ http://mirror.espri.arizona.edu/gentoo/ ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac aim alsa amd64 avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cddb cdr crypt cups curl dvd dvdr eds encode esd faad fam ffmpeg flac foomatic foomaticdb fortran gif gimpprint gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit libgda libsndfile libwww lzw lzw-tiff mad matroska mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oscar oss pam pdflib perl png ppds python qt quicktime readline sdl spell ssl tcltk tcpd theora tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales vorbis wxwindows xine xinerama xml2 xpm xv xvid yahoo zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
No gnome-2.10 packages has masked dependencies. The problem you mention shows that you probably updated gnome-menus, but then applications linkng with the previous version can't find the binary. Running revdep-rebuild or re-emerging the affected packages should resolve it. Thanks for opening a report, but this is not really a problem.
