I doubt this is specifically a hardened issue, but this is the only list I'm currently subscribed to and I know there are some very savvy folks who hang out here. I've been poking at this issue off and on for a couple of months (kind of hoping that an update would take care of the problem), but it hasn't so here are the details.
I decided to give gnome a try (I've never used anything other than KDE on this system) on my ~amd64 desktop so I emerged the meta package with the USE flags of my liking, enabled the gnome USE flag globally and let the system build away. My problem is gnome-shell segfaults. I get a blue background with vertical stripes that sort of reminds me of a curtain. After a few seconds I see the message that something has gone wrong and I have to log out. I've done some google searches and tried all sorts of things that have worked for others with similar symptoms but none have helped here. Also many emerge -auvND and revdep-rebuilds have been done since I first attempted to run gnome. Mesa has gallium enabled and eselected since I'm using an ATI video card. I've toyed around with the idea of a bug report, but decided to try here first. backtrace is attached Log files of the most recent attempt show the following: May 12 20:35:08 siren dbus[1897]: [system] Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.226" (uid=500 pid=15249 comm="/usr/bin/gnome-shell ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.0" (uid=0 pid=1912 comm="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon ") May 12 20:35:08 siren polkitd[1991]: Registered Authentication Agent for unix-session:/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session6 (system bus name :1.226 [/usr/bin/gnome-shell], object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8) May 12 20:35:08 siren dbus[1897]: [system] Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.226" (uid=500 pid=15249 comm="/usr/bin/gnome-shell ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.0" (uid=0 pid=1912 comm="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon ") May 12 20:35:09 siren gnome-session[15161]: WARNING: Application 'gnome-shell.desktop' killed by signal 11 May 12 20:35:10 siren dbus[1897]: [system] Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.230" (uid=500 pid=15358 comm="/usr/bin/gnome-shell ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.0" (uid=0 pid=1912 comm="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon ") May 12 20:35:11 siren polkitd[1991]: Registered Authentication Agent for unix-session:/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session6 (system bus name :1.230 [/usr/bin/gnome-shell], object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8) May 12 20:35:11 siren dbus[1897]: [system] Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.230" (uid=500 pid=15358 comm="/usr/bin/gnome-shell ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.0" (uid=0 pid=1912 comm="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon ") May 12 20:35:11 siren gnome-session[15161]: WARNING: Application 'gnome-shell.desktop' killed by signal 11 May 12 20:35:11 siren gnome-session[15161]: WARNING: App 'gnome-shell.desktop' respawning too quickly -- Stan & HD Tashi Grad 10/08 Edgewood, NM SWR PR - Cindy and Jenny - Sammamish, WA NWR http://www.cci.org
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