I've upgraded several GNOME packages at once and in the end I was not able to log in due to crashes in gnome-session and gnome-settings-daemon. ----------- .xsession-errors --------------------- /etc/X11/gdm/Xsession: Setup done, will execute: /usr/bin/seahorse-agent --execute gnome-session SESSION_MANAGER=local/raketa:/tmp/.ICE-unix/5961 1237279209.771199 Session manager: disconnected... 1237279211.392308 Session manager: disconnected... 1237279211.833197 Session manager: disconnected... Window manager warning: Failed to read saved session file /home/rumi/.config/metacity/sessions/default0.ms: Failed to open file '/home/rumi/.config/metacity/sessions/default0.ms': No such file or dir e 1237279213.182303 Session manager: disconnected... ** ERROR:dbus-gproxy.c:661:unassociate_proxies: assertion failed: (priv->associated) Multiple segmentation faults occurred; can't display error dialog ** (gnome-panel:6083): WARNING **: Unable to obtain AppletShell interface from control ** (gnome-panel:6083): WARNING **: panel-applet-frame.c:1413: failed to load applet OAFIID:GNOME_KeyboardApplet (cannot get applet shell) -------------------------------------------------- Reproducible: Always I've tracked this down to libxklavier and made the observation that echo ">=x11-libs/libxklavier-3.8" >> /etc/portage/package.mask and remerging libxklavier fixes it.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 256016 ***