Some lines from /var/log/messages: Aug 31 11:58:01 localhost (user-6235): iid OAFIID:BrokenNoType:20000808 has a NULL type Aug 31 11:58:01 localhost (user-6235): invalid character '#' in iid 'OAFIID:This#!!%$iid%^$%_|~!OAFIID_ContainsBadChars' $ xprop -root | grep XKB _XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "xfree86", "pc104", "us,ru", ",winkeys", "grp:ctrl_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll" _XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "xfree86", "pc104", "us,ru", ",winkeys", "grp:ctrl_shift_toggle" $ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb layouts = [us,ru winkeys] model = pc104 overrideSettings = false options = [grp grp:ctrl_shift_toggle] Files attached: XF86Config Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Portage 2.0.50-r10 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.2-r11, 2.6.8-gentoo-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.70GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 ccache version 2.3 [disabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" 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=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs buildpkg" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp:///ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirror.sdv.fr http://ftp.gentoo.skynet.be/pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.spb.ru/rsync http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/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 acpi alsa arts avi cdr crypt cups curl encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imlib jabber java jpeg kde libg++ libwww linguas_ru mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl png ppds python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype x86 xml xml2 xv zlib"
Created attachment 38590 [details] /etc/X11/XF86Config
can you give more details on how to reproduce this?
I can't reproduce it in Debian with same config, GNOME version and XFree 4.3.
what versions were you using for gentoo then? like xfree, gswitchit, etc.
I don't remember, sorry.
Can't reproduce anymore, no info.