Installed the latest version of conky available to ~x86: 1.6.2_pre01258. This version segfaults when running the conky executable every time. revdep-rebuild reports no broken libraries. A downgrade to 1.6.2_pre01247 fixes the problem. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge =app-admin/conky-1.6.2_pre01258 2.run "conky" executable 3.enjoy the segfault Actual Results: program segfaults and exits immediately Expected Results: conky to draw a new X window with the data specified in its configuration file. # emerge --info WARNING: repository at /usr/portage/local/layman/spring-unofficial is missing a repo_name entry WARNING: repository at /usr/local/portage/edb is missing a repo_name entry Portage 2.2_rc10 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.2.4, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r0, 2.6.26-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.26-gentoo-r1-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_4_CPU_3.00GHz-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:19:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r8 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.2.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r3 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.26 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/portage/local/layman/spring-unofficial /usr/local/portage/edb" SYNC="rsync://rsync21.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dfx 3dnow PDA X a52 aac accessibility acl acpi aim alsa apache2 asf bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups custom-cflags custom-optimization dbus debugger dga dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread dxr3 editor emboss encode esd evo expat fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk hal hou iconv imlib insecure-savers ipv6 isdnlog jabber jack java jpeg ldap libnotify lm_sensors mad maps menubar midi mikmod mjpeg mmx mng mp3 mpeg mudflap music ncurses netboot network nls nocd nowin nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia nvtv offensive ogg opengl openmp oss otr pam pcre pda pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime rar readline real reflection rss samba sdl session skins sndfile sou sounds spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcl tcltk tcpd theora threads tiff tk tools tordns truetype unicode usb vcd videos vidix vorbis win32codecs wxwindows x86 xcomposite xine xml xorg xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid xvmc" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
nevermind, after I re-emerged it several times it seems to work fine. Very odd.
