Trying to run Abiword it complains about the absence of libnautilus: abiword-2.0: error while loading shared libraries: libnautilus.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run "abiword-2.0" Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Portage 2.0.50-r8 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.6.7-gentoo-r8) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.7-gentoo-r8 i686 AMD Duron(tm) Processor Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/ http://gentoo.inode.at/ ftp://194.117.158.29/mirrors/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dfx 3dnow X acpi alsa arts avi berkdb cdr crypt cups encode esd fam gdbm gif gphoto2 gpm imlib java jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline ruby sdl slang spell ssl tcltk tcpd truetype usb voodoo3 x86 xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib"
have you manually removed nautilus? have you ran "emerge depclean" ? Either of theese cases may happily remove dependencies and break things because portage as of the moment does not do safe backwards traversal of dependency paths.
I haven't run them!