After an "emerge --emptytree" (which included emerging thunderbird), there are numerous ways thunderbird just hangs completely. Unfortunately, not any errors hinting to the source of the problem show up at all; especially none pointing ideas to _enigmail_ . Finally: Emerging enigmail (R) again afterwards solved the problem. [I--] [ ] mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-2.0.0.23 (0) [I--] [ ] x11-plugins/enigmail-0.95.7-r5 (0) You might perhaps also c.f. following related bugs: Bug#: 246421 Bug#: 283864
( ADDENDUM to comment #0 ) $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.2, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r3, 2.6.31-gentoo-r3 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r3-x86_64-AMD_Phenom-tm-_9950_Quad-Core_Processor-with-gentoo-1.12.12 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 08:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.0_p28 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.8-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.6.3, 3.1.1-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4-r3 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.12 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib64/fax /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb /var/spool/fax/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/mnt/Storage-01/Portage_dist/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo/" LANG="de_DE.UTF8" LC_ALL="de_DE.UTF8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="de" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" 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="/mnt/Storage-02/Portage_tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/local-overlay" SYNC="rsync://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 apache2 bash-completion berkdb branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups dbus doc dri dts dvb dvd dvdr eds emboss encode evo examples fam fax ffmpeg firefox firefox3 flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimp gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk h323 hal hbci htmlhandbook iconv ipv6 isdnlog jadetex java jce jpeg kde ldap libnotify lm_sensors mad maildir mbox mikmod mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl pmu png ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sasl scanner sdl session sip snmp spell spl sql sse sse2 sse3 sse4a ssl startup-notification subversion svg sysfs tcpd theora thunar tiff truetype unicode usb v4l v4l2 vorbis webkit x264 xcomposite xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib zvbi" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" 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 authn_alias authn_anon 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 deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" FRITZCAPI_CARDS="fcpci" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de" MISDN_CARDS="avmfritz" SANE_BACKENDS="hp" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
On an emerge -e world enigmail gets merged after thunderbird for me. Never saw it reversed.
(In reply to comment #2) Strange, indeed. If nobody else has ever experienced this problem, let's close this bug as WORLSFORME.
