I noticed the following when restarting xdm: # /etc/init.d/xdm start * Setting up gdm ... /etc/bash_completion.d/pulseaudio-bash-completion.sh: line 6: syntax error near unexpected token `<' /etc/bash_completion.d/pulseaudio-bash-completion.sh: line 6: ` done < <(pactl list cards short 2> /dev/null)' [ ok ] gdm fails to start despite the success return code. google searching shows this came up here as well: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/dropline-gnome/ticket/105 --- Portage 2.2.7 (hardened/linux/x86, gcc-4.7.3, glibc-2.16.0, 3.2.45-hardened-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.2.45-hardened-r1-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_4_CPU_2.80GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 1011600 total, 96304 free KiB Swap: 2104504 total, 1904356 free Timestamp of tree: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 10:15:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.1 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p45 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.12-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.7.5-r3, 3.2.5-r3, 3.3.2-r2 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.11.2 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.12.4 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1::anarchy sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6, 1.12.6, 1.13.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.22-r1, 2.23.1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.6.3, 4.7.3-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r4 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.9 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.16.0 Repositories: gentoo Installed sets: @system ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=i686 -O2 -pipe -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.5/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" CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -O2 -pipe -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/var/tmp/distfiles" FCFLAGS="-march=i686 -O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news nostrip parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr" FFLAGS="-march=i686 -O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/var/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acl acpi alsa amrnb ao apache2 apng asf audiofile avahi bash-completion berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts bl browserplugin bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cdparanoia cjk clamav clamdtop cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups curl cxx dba dbus declarative deprecated device-mapper dga dri dts dv dvd eds elf emacs enca encode enscript erandom esd exif expat extensions fam fame fat ffmpeg firefox flac flash font-server fontconfig fortran fpx ftp fts3 g3dvl gd gd-external gdbm gdu gif git glibc-omitfp glut glx gmp gnome gnutls gpm graphviz gs gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtk3 gtkhtml guild guile gzip hardened hardenedphp hdri i8x0 iconv icq idn imap imlib imlib2 iproute2 ipsec ipv6 jack java jbig jp2 jpeg jpeg2k kcal kde keymap kmod lame lcms libcaca libclamav libgda libkms libvisual linuxthreads-tls live lm_sensors logitech-mouse logrotate lzo mad maildir mbstring md5sum mdnsresponder-compat mercurial mhash midi ming mixer mjpeg mmx mmxext mng mod mod_python modperl modplug modules mouse mp2 mp3 mp4 mpeg mpeg2 mplayer mudflap multislot musepack musicbrainz mysql mysqli ncurses network networking new-login nfs nls nptl nsplugin oav objc ocaml ogg oggvorbis openal opendoc openexr opengl openmp openrc oss pam pam_chroot passenger pax_kernel pcntl pcre perl php pic png pnm policykit portaudio postfix povray ppds pvr python pyzor q32 qca qt qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime quotas radio rar razor readline realmedia regex reports rtc ruby ruby-bindings samba sasl script sdk sdl semantic-desktop sensord session sndfile sockets sox spamassassin speex spell sql sqlite sqlite3 srt sse sse2 ssl startup-notification subtitles subversion suexec suhosin svg sysfs syslog tcpd teletext tga theora threads tiff timidity tivo transcode truetype type1 udev unicode urandom usb utf8 vcd vcdimager vfat vim vim-pager vim-with-x virus-scan visualization vorbis webkit win32codecs wma wmf wxwindows x264 x86 xanim xattr xchat xfs xft xine xinetd xml xml2 xmlreader xpm xrandr xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid xvmc yahoo zip zlib zoran" ABI_X86="32" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" 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 cgi 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 auth_digest authn_dbd dbd ident imagemap" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CURL_SSL="openssl" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="en es ja" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3 php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2 python3_3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 ruby19 ruby20" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" USE_PYTHON="2.7 3.2 3.3" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Still valid with 4.99.4? (at least manually running the script it exits ok)