it worked fine before i upgraded to this version. emerge --info >>> cfg-update-1.8.0-r3 : Building checksum index... (takes a few seconds) done! Portage 2.1_rc4-r4 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-4.1.1/vanilla, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.16-gentoo-r9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r9 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.1 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 2.0.0_rc1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon -mtune=athlon -pipe " CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon -mtune=athlon -pipe " DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org/" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LINGUAS="en hu ro" MAKEOPTS=" -s -j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://gw/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acpi alsa avi bash-completion browserplugin bzip2 cairo cdparanoia cdr css cups dga divx4linux dri dvd dvdr dvdread encode erandom esd fbsplash firefox foomaticdb fpu gd gif gimpprint gmail gnome gnutls gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal howl i8x0 imagemagick imap ithreads jabberjpeg kqemu live maildir mbox mbrola mime mmx mmxext mozdevelop mozilla mozmail moznocompose moznoirc moznoroaming mozsvg mp3 mpeg mplayer mtrr mysql nautilus ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg openal opengl oss pam pdflib perl png ppds python quicktime readline rtc screen sdl softmmusox sse sse2 ssl startup-notification subtitles svg tcpd truetype udev unicode usb userlocales utf8 vcd video_cards_nvidia vorbis win32codecs xine xml xmms xprint xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse kernel_linux linguas_en linguas_hu linguas_ro userland_GNU video_cards_nv video_cards_vesa" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
same problem here
upstream bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344191 but gnome-2.14.1 uses gdm-2.14.0 not gdm-2.14.8, according to http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.14/2.14.1/sources/
This should be fixed in gdm-2.14.9. Thanks for the report.