[gentoo-user] Some problems I've been having

[Michael Sullivan]

I've had problems galore this week.  Yesterday I had to re-merge evince
because my pdf view wasn't working.  This morning I had to re-merge gtk+
because file-roller and seamonkey weren't working.  I rebuilt my kernel
(2.6.17-gentoo-r8) in yet another attempt to upgrade to
media-tv/ivtv-0.8.0 because the kernel didn't have CONFIG_VIDEO_CX2341X
set.  Can anyone help me with this?  I simply can't find it.  Yesterday an
etc-update asked me to review a proposed change to /etc/rc.conf.  I said
to go ahead and replace it, thinking that I could modify the new one with
my custom options later.  I did  notice that the option for X login screen
was gone (gdm/kdm/xdm).  Where has this moved to?  When I rebooted with my
rebuilt kernel (which still does not have that stupid option included) I
was met with the cold boring xdm login screen.  I want gdm back.  Any
ideas how I can get it?  When I logged into Gnome, my two panels were
frozen (fixed that with killall gnome-panel), but my mini-commander applet
crashed (repeatedly with repeated killall gnome-panel).  Is there a way
for me to find out why it crashed and how to fix it?  I had to re-merge
evince again this morning because nautilus wouldn't work. (Why are all
these libraries suddenly failing?  revdep-rebuild reports nothing amiss!) 
Evolution-2.6 freezes immediately after startup (I'm writing this in
squirrelmail - seamonkey works, for now at least.)  Here's the output in
my terminal from it:

michael@camille ~ $ evolution-2.6
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "atk-bridge": libatk-bridge.so: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory
GTK Accessibility Module initialized

(evolution-2.6:7159): Gnome-WARNING **: Accessibility: failed to find
module 'libgail-gnome' which is needed to make this application accessible

(evolution-2.6:7159): Gnome-WARNING **: Accessibility: failed to find
module 'libatk-bridge' which is needed to make this application accessible
CalDAV Eplugin starting up ...
Bonobo-Activation-Message: About to register
'OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Shell:2.6': 0x8129700
Bonobo-Activation-Message: registration of
'OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Shell:2.6' returns (success)
Bonobo-Activation-Message: Successfully registered
`OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Shell:2.6'

(evolution-2.6:7159): camel-WARNING **: camel_exception_get_id called with
NULL parameter.

(evolution-2.6:7159): camel-WARNING **: camel_exception_get_id called with
NULL parameter.

I don't see anything in that output that tells me why it's freezing.  the
camel_exception_get_id thing is kinda ominous, but I think it always says
that when I start it from the terminal.  Also, is there a way to find out
if my firewall is actually running at any given time?  I use ipkungfu, but
when /etc/init.d/ipkungfu status says it's running, I can't find anything
in ps about ipkungfu or iptables.  Is there a way for me to know for sure?
 Any help you can give will be greatly appreciated...



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