betelgeuse@pena ~/mailer $ eselect java-vm list Available Java Virtual Machines: [1] icedtea6-bin [2] sun-jre-bin-1.6 betelgeuse@pena ~/mailer $ man java No manual entry for java betelgeuse@pena ~/mailer $ file /home/betelgeuse/.gentoo/java-config-2/current-user-vm /home/betelgeuse/.gentoo/java-config-2/current-user-vm: broken symbolic link to `/usr/lib/jvm/sun-jdk-1.6' I think the shell initializer should switch the VM to something working. We could have a configuration setting for this in case someone wants to do things manually.