From my pax.log: Nov 21 10:21:05 localhost kernel: PAX: execution attempt in: (null), 00000000-00000000 00000000 Nov 21 10:21:05 localhost kernel: PAX: terminating task: /usr/bin/kdeinit4(plasma-desktop):2020, uid/euid: 1000/1000, PC: 00000008, SP: 5ab0a15c Nov 21 10:21:05 localhost kernel: PAX: bytes at PC: ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? Nov 21 10:21:05 localhost kernel: PAX: bytes at SP-4: 00000006 49bbd507 13804950 50541d70 13819e20 5ab0a1f8 00000029 5054395c 4f690380 1a359ee1 5054395c 13819e20 5ab0a1b8 5041bc50 13819e20 00000006 00000000 5ab0a1f8 000000b0 00000000 4f68ee4c Portage 2.1.10.11 (hardened/linux/x86, gcc-4.4.5, glibc-2.13-r4, 2.6.39-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.39-gentoo-i686-Intel-R-_Celeron-R-_M_CPU_430_@_1.73GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.3 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:30:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-lang/python: 2.7.2-r3 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.4-r1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.3 sys-apps/openrc: 0.8.3-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.21.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.5 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r1 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.39 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.13-r4 Repositories: gentoo x-portage ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -g0" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -g0" DISTDIR="/media/sources" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs collision-protect distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms split-log strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="it_IT.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--hash-style=gnu" LINGUAS="en en_GB" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aac acl acpi alsa apic bash-completion berkdb bzip2 cairo cli consolekit cracklib crypt custom-cflags custom-optimization cxx dbus dri dvd extras ffmpeg gdbm gpm gtk hardened iconv jpeg jpeg2k kde lame lm_sensors mad mmx modules mp3 mudflap ncurses networkmanager nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin opengl openmp pam pax_kernel pcre pic png policykit pppd qt3support qt4 readline semantic-desktop session sse sse2 ssl svg symlink sysfs tcpd threads tiff tordns udev urandom x264 x86 xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LINGUAS="en en_GB" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPT Qt: 4.7.4 KDE Development Platform: 4.7.3 (4.7.3)
I'm going to close this because most likely it's just related to one of the many crash bugs already fixed... reopen if you disagree and have more info for me :|