KDE Laptop power monitor (the KDE battery and power management tray icon) fails to start on KDE startup if, and only if, composite is enabled AND kcompmgr runs. If kcompmgr (or composite) are shut down, everything works properly. The strange thing is that disabling, then re-enabling the icon from the KDE Control Center makes it appear again, even with kcompmgr running... # emerge info Portage 2.0.54-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1500MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: [Not Present] dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 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-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium-m -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib/X11/xkb /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/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium-m -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirror.solnet.ch http://gentoo.ngi.it" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acl acpi alsa amuled apache2 aqua_theme arts async atlas audiofile avantgo bash-completion berkdb bindist bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 cardbus cdparanoia cdr cli cpudetection crypt css cups curl curlwrappers devfs26 devmap dga dhcp dio directfb divx4linux djbfft dlloader dpms dri dvb dvd encode ethereal exif expat fat fbcon fbsplash ffmpeg fftw flac foomaticdb fortran fpx ftp gd gdbm gif glut glx gmp gnutls gphoto2 gpm gs gssapi gtk gtk2 gzip hpn i8x0 icq idea idn imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 irda isdnlog jabber java javascript jikes john jp2 jpeg jpeg2k kde kdepim kerberos krb4 lapack lcms ldap lesstif libg++ libwww mad mbox messages mikmod mime mmap mmx mmxext mng motif mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg mppe-mppc msn mysql mysqli ncurses nls nocd nomalloccheck nptl nptlonly ntfs ntlm octave odbc offensive ogg opengl oscar pam pcapnav pcmcia pcntl pcre pda pdflib perl plotutils png pnp posix ppds pppd python qt quicktime radius rdesktop readline real reflection samba sasl sdl session sharedmem silc slp sms snmp sockets sox spell spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl svga sysfs sysvipc tcltk tcpd tetex threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales v4l v4l2 vcd vorbis wifi win32codecs winbind wmf xchattext xcomposite xine xml xml2 xmlrpc xmms xorg xv xvid yahoo zlib video_cards_i915 userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS
Just FYI, if someone is still interested in working on this, on a full reinstall on another machine everything works...
Well, if you can't reproduce this on a fresh install, let's close this bug. Feel free to reopen if you manage to reproduce it.
