When I start amsn it crashes and reports the following error: ioannis@bluehat ~ $ amsn Application initialization failed: this isn't a Tk applicationunknown color name "Black" Error in startup script: can't invoke "wm" command: application has been destroyed while executing "wm state . withdraw" (file "/usr/bin/amsn" line 43) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. amsn Actual Results: amsn crashes Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/amd64/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3-20050110, glibc-2.3.4.2 0050125-r0, 2.6.11-gentoo-r3 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r3 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.10 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, Feb 20 2005, 22:32:21)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.5, 1.5, 1.8.5-r3, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.4_p6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r6 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r5 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X1 1/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig buildpkg ccache distlocks fixpackages sandbox us ersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://linu v.uv.es/mirror/gentoo/ http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac aalib acpi alsa amd64 apache2 avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-f onts bluetooth bzlib cdparanoia cdr crypt cups curl dga dio directfb divx4linux dv dvd dvdr dvdread encode ethereal fastcgi fbcon ffmpeg fftw flac font-server f oomaticdb fortran ftp ggi gif glut gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal icq imagemagick im agemnagick imlib ipv6 java javascript jp2 jpeg junit kde lm_sensors lzw lzw-tiff mad matroska mime mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg msn multilib ncurses nls nocd nptl nptlonly offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pdflib perl png posix py thon qt quicktime readline samba sdl sockets source spell ssl szip tcltk tcpd ti ff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales v4l vcd xine xml xml2 xmms xosd xpm xrandr xv xvid zlib video_cards_ati linguas_es linguas_el" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
did you try to run a revdep-rebuild? you need to emerge gentoolkit for that, but i think it helped me when i had the same problem
revdep-rebuild showed all clean. I have switched profile... hope that'll help.
It was a glibc problem (glibc was broken), after reinstalling it, problems were gone.
