$ blam (Blam:17003): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed. Unhandled Exception: System.DllNotFoundException: libintl in <0x00053> (wrapper managed-to-native) Mono.Posix.Catalog:bindtextdomain (intptr,intptr) in <0x00053> Mono.Posix.Catalog:Init (string,string) in <0x00162> Imendio.Blam.Application:.ctor (string[],object[]) in <0x0003e> Imendio.Blam.Application:Main (string[]) emerge info Portage 2.0.51_rc1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.4.2, glibc-2.3.4.20040916-r0, 2.6.8-gentoo-r3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r3 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP1700+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.9 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.2 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r4 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -O3 -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 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ ftp://mir.zyrianes.net/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/bmg-main" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X acpi alsa apm arts atm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr crypt cups directfb dvdr eds encode esd evo f2c f77 foomaticdb gcj gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal imlib java jpeg ldap libg++ libwww lzw-tiff mad mikmod mmx mng mono motif mozilla moznoirc moznomail mozsvg mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline ruby samba sdl sed slang spell ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype unicode userlocales x86 xml xml2 xmms xprint xv zlib"
Do you have "nls" in your USE flags? In particular, can you should me the output of "emerge glibc -pv" ?
Marking NEEDINFO.