When trying to load KDE, arts goes up to 100% CPU usage and then freezes, taking the entire system with it. This is KDE 3.3 with the stable version of arts (1.3.0). emerge info: Portage 2.0.50-r11 (default-amd64-2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040619-r1, 2.6.8-gentoo-r4) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r4 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache prelink" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib acpi aim alsa amd64 apm arts artswrappersuid audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bootsplash c calendar cdinstall cdparanoia cdr cjk codecscrypt cups devfs26 divx4linux dv dvd dvdread emoticon encode ex fam ffmpeg flacflash foomaticdb gdbm gif gimp gimpprint gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 icq ieee1394 imlib jabber java jpeg jpeg2k kde kerberos ldap libg++ libwww live mikmod mng motif mpeg mpeg4 mplayer msdav msn mssql music ncurses net network nls nogcj nvidia offensive oggvorbis ooo-kde opengl oscar oss pam pdflib perl pic png ppds pythonqt quicktime readline rtc samba scanner sdl slang soap spell ssl stencil-buffertcltk tcpd truetype v4l v4l2 videos xine xml2 xmms xprint xv yahoo zlib"
nothing we can do about it... please refer to similar arts bug on bugs.kde.org, there are really a lot of them. You may want to turn off the artswrappersuid flag, as it makes arts crashes worse, and able to take the system down.