when I run linux_logo as root, it always puts "Trying to open /root/.linux_logo" It also puts in on top of /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net I didn't had this with linux-logo 4.09 emerge info: Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3-20050110, glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.10 Python: dev-lang/python-2.2.3-r5,dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, Feb 18 2005, 01:26:04)] distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.2.3-r5, 2.3.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r7 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.14 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r4 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/local/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig candy ccache distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/local/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://ftp.belnet.be/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X aalib alsa avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl directfb divx4linux dvd dvdread emboss encode esd fam fbcon flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg libg++ libwww lm_sensors mad maildir mikmod mmx mmxext motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses network nls nocd nptl nvidia oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline rtc samba sblive sdl slang speex spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode v4l xinerama xml2 xmms xprint xv xvid zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
Fixed in CVS. Re-sync, re-merge and the problem should be gone.