Myself and many others in the #gentoo channel on IRC have noticed that XMMS fails to load for some folks after it's emerge'd. $ xmms fs seg 0x40017000 Available CPU flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow 1396.043000 MHz AMD Athlon(tm) processor processor detected Segmentation fault You've probably found a bug in XMMS, please visit http://bugs.xmms.org and fill out a bug report.
hm this used to happen to me before I fixed the perms on the audio devices as per instructions in the desktop guide
Eric: Check out the suggestion here; you weren't on the CC so I just added you.
Eric: if the permissions don't fix the problem, what sound card are you using?
No reply back for awhile.. changing status to wontfix