I've upgraded to dev-db/phpmyadmin-2.7.0_rc1, and see this error message. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge dev-lang/php # dev-lang/php-5.0.5-r4 2.emerge dev-db/phpmyadmin # dev-db/phpmyadmin-2.7.0_rc1 3.go to http://localhost/phpmyadmin Actual Results: I see error message "Cannot load session extension. Please check your PHP configuration." Expected Results: phpmyadmin start page php: default configuration /etc/conf.d/apache2: APACHE2_OPTS="-D DEFAULT_VHOST -D SSL -D SSL_DEFAULT_VHOST -D USERDIR -D PERL -D PHP5" KEEPENV="PATH" emerge info: Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre11 Portage 2.0.53 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r3, 2.6.14-suspend2-r5-fb i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-suspend2-r5-fb i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.80GHz ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.15 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -mfpmath=sse -msse -msse2 -mmmx -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /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/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/init.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -mfpmath=sse -msse -msse2 -mmmx -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/home/ftp/pub/Linux/gentoo/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.citkit.ru/pub/Linux/gentoo/ ftp.chg.ru:/pub/Linux/gentoo/" LANG="ru_RU.koi8-r" LC_ALL="ru_RU.koi8-r" LINGUAS="ru" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/home/ftp/pub/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acpi alsa apache2 audiofile avi bash-completion bcmath berkdb bitmap-fonts blas bluetooth boundschecking browserplugin bzip2 bzlib calendar cdparanoia cdr crypt cscope ctype cups dba dga dio directfb doc dts dv dvd dvdr dvdread emacs encode esd examples exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg fftw firefox flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gcj gd gdbm gif gimp gimp-print ginac glut gnustep gphoto2 gpm graphviz gtk gtk2 guile hal iconv icq idn ieee1394 imagemagick imap jabber java javascript jikes jpeg kerberos krb4 lcms ldap leim libcaca libg++ libwww logrotate mad matroska matrox mbox mcal memlimit milter mime mmap mmx mng motif mozcalendar mp3 mpeg mpi mule mysql mysqli ncurses nls nptl nsplugin objc ocaml ofx ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oracle pam pcmcia pcre pdflib perl php plotutils png posix ppds profile python quicktime readline recode samba sasl scanner sdl sharedmem slang sndfile sockets sox speex spell spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl svg svga symlink sysvipc szip tcltk test tetex theora threads tidy tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb v4l v4l2 vcd videos vorbis wifi win32codecs wmf wxwindows xine xml2 xmms xosd xpm xv xvid zlib video_cards_sis315 linguas_ru userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS
Recompile dev-lang/php with USE=session ;)
