this problem is kind of hard to explain, so i will attach a screenshot. basically, when trying to save a page (File: Save As) or download something (right click a link, Save Link As), the location of the directory is missing. this makes trying to find your way around your own system very difficult! smithj ~ # emerge -pv mozilla-firefox These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies * Please upgrade your package (mozilla-firefox-1.0.4) to use toolchain-funcs.eclass * Please upgrade your package (mozilla-firefox-1.0.3) to use toolchain-funcs.eclass * Please upgrade your package (mozilla-firefox-1.0.3-r1) to use toolchain-funcs.eclass * Please upgrade your package (mozilla-firefox-1.0.2) to use toolchain-funcs.eclass * Please upgrade your package (mozilla-firefox-1.0.2-r1) to use toolchain-funcs.eclass ...done! [ebuild R ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.0.4 -debug +gnome +java +ldap -mozdevelop -moznoxft -mozsvg -mozxmlterm -xinerama +xprint 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB smithj ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.0.51.21-r1 (default-linux/x86, gcc-3.4.3-20050110, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.12-rc4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-rc4 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.11 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.8 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r8 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /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 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache cvs digest distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aalib acpi aim alsa apache2 avi bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups dba divx4linux dvd encode esd flac fluxbox font-server ftp gd gd-external gif gnome gtk gtk2 icq idea imap imlib java jikes jpeg mad mmx mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcmcia php pic png posix python samba sdl spell sse sse2 ssl tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb vim vorbis xmms xprint xv xvid userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY smithj ~ #
Created attachment 58920 [details] screenshot.png screenshot showing the problem
er. i restarted my computer (kernel upgrade; quite unrelated), and it magically appeared... sorry for the trouble
