Please add "amd64" to the KEYWORDS for sys-fs/udev-030. On a udev-only system, udev-025 (the current stable version) creates /dev/tty with mode 0660. It should be 0666. This breaks xterm and rxvt. udev-030 fixes this and appears to work for me. Please consider marking it stable so that people with udev-only stable systems ( umm ;) ) get working xterms. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Portage 2.0.50-r9 (gcc34-amd64-2004.1, gcc-3.4.1, glibc-2.3.4.20040619-r0, 2.6.7 -gentoo-r11) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.7-gentoo-r11 x86_64 4 Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-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 /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/shar e/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf /xdvi/ /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://lug.mtu.edu/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa amd64 apache2 apm arts avi berkdb crypt cups dvd encode esd foomatic db gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mikmod motif mo zilla mpeg multilib mysql ncurses nls nptl oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png postgres python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl tcpd tetex threads truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib"
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