On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Dirk Uys <dirkc...@gmail.com> wrote: > After some more struggling I managed to get kde-base/systemsettings > compiled: If I unmerge x11-libs/libxkbfile and then emerge > systemsettings, it compiles fine (without support for the xkb > settings). After that I did an emerge -DuvaN world and this pulls in > libxkbfile again. > > But when I try to start KDE4.2 (using kdm), the screen blanks out a > few times while kde is loading (the spash screen being displayed) and > then I briefly see a malformed desktop (the bottom of the taskbar > wraps around to the top of the screen) and then just a black screen. > > In /var/log/messages, something about plasma crashing is reported, > can't remember and I'm not at the PC now, but nothing very > informative. > > I feel like going back to my good old days of windowmaker. > > Regards > Dirk >
I found bug #256827, upgraded gcc, and everything is fine and well again! Regards Dirk