I just built a new Gentoo system from stage 2, and did 'emerge gnome'. It ended up working for root and not for normal users. For normal users it crashed with a very non-descriptive fault in "gdk_draw_drawable assertion failed src == NULL". This was because of the permissions on some directories in /usr/share like /usr/share/gnome /usr/share/icons /usr/share/pixmaps I think it is some default umask issue.
what exactly did you install from ? What were those exact permissions ?
I booted from the Gentoo LiveCD 1.4 (athlon-xp-1.4-20030911-cd1.iso) then folowed the instructions in the handbook, downloading stage 2 (stage2-athlon-xp-20030910.tar.bz2), then installing and building from internet (emerge/rsync) The permissions were -rwxr-x--- for user root and group root. (I think, I'm not entirely sure) I found them with a simple ls -alR | grep '\-\-\-'.
strange, all my systems list those as 0755
maybe more something for the livecd maintainers.
I don't see why this should be a livecd-problem. The ebuild creates the directories mentioned. If they have wrong perms it's surely not livecd-related.
Since this is a report for 1.4 and we have a couple new cds to choose from, I'll mark this as FIXED. Go ahead and reopen if this is still a problem with 2004.1 or 2004.2. Thanks.
