After a world update on 03-Jun-2002 which upgraded libpng to version 1.2.3, most KDE applications refused to run because of a missing libpng.so.3. KDM could also not be restarted after a reboot making KDE impossible to load. No doubt this affects the vast majority X based WM's and WE's. This problem occurs because file: /usr/lib/libpng.so.3 is symlinked to the old /usr/lib/libpng.so.3.1.2.1 file which no longer exists after the upgrade. Fixable by becoming superuser and typing: ln -s /usr/lib/libpng.so.3.1.2.3 /usr/lib/libpng.so.3
portage related bug that it fails mtimes when you have "autoclean" enabled. emerge unmerge libpng; emerge libpng Will remove all instances and then install it "clean" and that will work.
