I don't know what exactly is respnsible for that, but i guess it had something to do with my latest world update. According to genlop and my memory [i've merged a lot of other thing since then] this update looked like this:
Sat Mar 26 12:52:45 2005 >>> dev-java/blackdown-jdk-1.4.1-r1 Sat Mar 26 14:32:26 2005 >>> sys-libs/glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1 Sat Mar 26 14:37:37 2005 >>> sys-kernel/gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.11-r4 Sat Mar 26 14:38:16 2005 >>> media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.8 Sat Mar 26 14:42:07 2005 >>> media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.8 Sat Mar 26 14:43:07 2005 >>> media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.8 Sat Mar 26 14:46:50 2005 >>> media-libs/svgalib-1.9.19-r3 Sat Mar 26 14:51:51 2005 >>> dev-libs/glib-2.6.2-r1 Sat Mar 26 14:56:21 2005 >>> x11-libs/pango-1.8.1 Sat Mar 26 14:57:10 2005 >>> x11-misc/shared-mime-info-0.14-r2 Sat Mar 26 15:28:00 2005 >>> x11-libs/gtk+-2.6.2 Sat Mar 26 15:36:35 2005 >>> gnome-base/libgnomeui-2.8.1-r1 Sat Mar 26 15:38:45 2005 >>> media-libs/giflib-4.1.3 Sat Mar 26 15:47:46 2005 >>> media-sound/xmms-1.2.10-r13 Sat Mar 26 15:48:33 2005 >>> dev-java/jdepend-2.8.1 Sat Mar 26 15:49:07 2005 >>> dev-java/jsch-0.1.18 Sat Mar 26 16:53:02 2005 >>> x11-libs/qt-3.3.4-r2 Sat Mar 26 17:23:17 2005 >>> kde-base/arts-1.3.2-r1 Sat Mar 26 17:25:20 2005 >>> media-plugins/xmms-arts-0.7.1-r1 Sat Mar 26 17:30:35 2005 >>> media-plugins/xmms-mikmod-1.2.10 Sat Mar 26 17:35:45 2005 >>> media-plugins/xmms-vorbis-1.2.10-r1 Sat Mar 26 17:37:27 2005 >>> media-plugins/xmms-mad-0.8 Sat Mar 26 17:43:21 2005 >>> media-plugins/xmms-esd-1.2.10-r1 Sat Mar 26 17:48:02 2005 >>> media-plugins/xmms-oss-1.2.10 Sat Mar 26 17:52:41 2005 >>> media-plugins/xmms-alsa-1.2.10 Sat Mar 26 17:54:47 2005 >>> dev-util/strace-4.5.9 Sat Mar 26 17:59:37 2005 >>> media-libs/libdv-0.102 Sat Mar 26 18:13:31 2005 >>> app-text/opensp-1.5.1 Sat Mar 26 18:14:42 2005 >>> app-text/docbook-xsl-stylesheets-1.66.1 Sat Mar 26 18:18:53 2005 >>> net-misc/curl-7.13.1 Sat Mar 26 18:35:52 2005 >>> app-text/ghostscript-7.07.1-r8 Sat Mar 26 19:02:33 2005 >>> media-gfx/imagemagick-6.2.0.4 Sat Mar 26 19:08:42 2005 >>> net-misc/openssh-3.9_p1-r2 Sat Mar 26 19:10:35 2005 >>> sys-apps/usbutils-0.11-r5 Sat Mar 26 19:12:51 2005 >>> media-plugins/gst-plugins-vorbis-0.8.7 Sat Mar 26 19:14:52 2005 >>> media-plugins/gst-plugins-ogg-0.8.7 Sat Mar 26 19:16:45 2005 >>> media-plugins/gst-plugins-mad-0.8.7 Sat Mar 26 19:36:53 2005 >>> x11-libs/openmotif-2.2.3-r3 Sat Mar 26 19:53:25 2005 >>> dev-util/ddd-3.3.10 Sat Mar 26 19:58:04 2005 >>> app-misc/mc-4.6.0-r13 Sat Mar 26 20:02:30 2005 >>> media-gfx/gimp-print-4.2.7 Sat Mar 26 20:04:24 2005 >>> dev-libs/libpcre-5.0 Sat Mar 26 20:08:12 2005 >>> app-arch/tar-1.15.1 Sat Mar 26 20:11:57 2005 >>> media-libs/imlib2-1.2.0-r2 Sat Mar 26 20:13:34 2005 >>> media-libs/libexif-0.5.12-r2 Sat Mar 26 20:14:21 2005 >>> dev-perl/PodParser-1.28 Sat Mar 26 20:15:12 2005 >>> dev-perl/DB_File-1.811 Sat Mar 26 20:15:46 2005 >>> dev-perl/IO-Socket-SSL-0.96 Sat Mar 26 20:17:14 2005 >>> mail-filter/spamassassin-3.0.2-r1 Sat Mar 26 20:17:49 2005 >>> www-client/mozilla-launcher-1.30 Sat Mar 26 20:18:16 2005 >>> net-mail/mailbase-0.00-r8 Sat Mar 26 20:18:53 2005 >>> mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61 Sat Mar 26 20:19:56 2005 >>> media-gfx/xloadimage-4.1-r3 Sat Mar 26 22:08:26 2005 >>> www-client/mozilla-1.7.6-r1 Sat Mar 26 23:42:37 2005 >>> mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-1.0.2 Sat Mar 26 23:43:38 2005 >>> dev-python/pyrex-0.9.3-r1 Sat Mar 26 23:49:38 2005 >>> sys-apps/dbus-0.23-r3 Sat Mar 26 23:50:26 2005 >>> sys-libs/libcap-1.10-r5 Sat Mar 26 23:53:26 2005 >>> sys-apps/hal-0.4.5-r2 Sat Mar 26 23:53:59 2005 >>> dev-perl/extutils-depends-0.205 Sat Mar 26 23:54:31 2005 >>> dev-perl/extutils-pkgconfig-1.07 Sat Mar 26 23:55:37 2005 >>> dev-perl/glib-perl-1.062 Sun Mar 27 00:04:13 2005 >>> dev-perl/gtk2-perl-1.062 Sun Mar 27 00:04:48 2005 >>> sys-block/gpart-0.1h-r1 Sun Mar 27 00:07:59 2005 >>> app-editors/scite-1.6.2 Sun Mar 27 00:09:09 2005 >>> sys-apps/net-tools-1.60-r11 Sun Mar 27 00:11:27 2005 >>> media-plugins/gst-plugins-xvideo-0.8.7 Sun Mar 27 00:13:29 2005 >>> media-plugins/gst-plugins-gnomevfs-0.8.7 Sun Mar 27 00:15:16 2005 >>> net-misc/rsync-2.6.0-r4 Sun Mar 27 03:03:54 2005 >>> kde-base/kdelibs-3.3.2-r7 Sun Mar 27 03:04:21 2005 >>> sys-apps/memtest86+-1.51 However, since this upgrade the gnome-volume-control applet dies 'unexpectedly' nearly all the time when i start playing a file in xmms, totem, mplayer, xine ... or close one of these progs. I've allready tried to rebuild gnome-panel [i think that contains the volume-control, but i'm not shure about that ... ] without succes. Besides of the stange behavour of the gnome-volume-control sound works fine. By the way, i'm using gnome-2.8.2 with Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686). Any ideas ? antonio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list