GNOME will lock up when trying o logout or restart the machine when the volume applet is in the panel. Basically, removing the volume applet from the panel fixes this, but it's annoying not being to have the applet in the panel at all times. Luke. Portage 2.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.16-gentoo-r13 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r13 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.4 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 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-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.12-r6 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -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/share/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/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X a52 aac acpi aim alsa apache2 arts avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bonobo cdparanoia cdr cli crypt cups dbus dga dlloader doc dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd examples firefox foomaticdb fortran ftp gcj gdbm gif gimp gimpprint gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal howl icq imlib ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kde libg++ libwww lm_sensors mad madwifi mikmod mmx mono motif mp3 mpeg msn ncurses nls nptl nsplugin nvidia odbc ogg openal opengl pam pcre pdf pdflib perl php png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection ruby samba scanner sdl session slp spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg tcpd tetex truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb v4l vcd vorbis wifi win32codecs xml xmms xorg xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev kernel_linux userland_GNU" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
try rebuilding gnome-applets (if you've updated alsa or gstreamer recently, this may help)
Yeah, this seems to fix the problem. Thanks, Luke.