Half of the applications in my gentoo installation seems to be broken, namely graphic applications.

Here is EVERYTHING broken:

Note: Just about everything here I used emerge with

-When trying to execute something compiled from g++ (as in you made it), it just says cannot execute, even when you enter the correct permissions (Compiler problems!?).

-When running games, most of them in one point of the application give you a segmentation fault.

-The command "wine regedit" gives
wine-pthread: stack smashing attack in function DrawFrameControl()
Aborted

-Many things wouldn't compile correctly, namely Mplayer. Usually giving something like We are not compatible with this version. I tried switching to a different compiler but it does nothing.

-Vmware would give the same kernal is not compatible with vmware even when you build the modules in.

-Countless other things that I forgot and I will post them here when I find them.

I will try to give many statistics about this installation as I can:

-I am using ext2 for my boot partition, reiserfs on my root, and, well, swap on my swap.
I also have a spare 4 gigs or so of free space when I feel like experementing with freebsd and such.

-Here is my make.conf:

# These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically built this stage
# Please consult /etc/make.conf.example for a more detailed example
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -mtune=pentium4 -fforce-addr -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fomit-frame-pointer -ftracer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -fvisibility-inlines-hidden"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp
POSTDIR=/usr/portage
DISTDIR=${POSTDIR}/distfiles
PKGDIR=${POSTDIR}/packages
PORT4_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage
PORDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0"
RSYNC_RETRIES="3"
RSYNC_TIMEOUT=180
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PORTAGE_NICENESS=3 (<-- just as a sidenote, I snorted when I saw that.)
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
FEATUERS="sandbox ccache distlocks"
CCACHE_SIZE="3G"
RSYNC_EXCLUDEFROM=/etc/portage/rysync_excludes
USE="acpi cups ithreads Idap nls nptl pam pthreads python readline samba ssl tcpd kde icewm gnome enlightenment cdr alsa esd libwww mpeg mp3 snmp sockets socks5 network dedicated network"

Kernal:
I do not know how to post statistics for this (as in what's compiled). If someone could tell me how that would be great.


Versions:
gcc: i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.3 20050110 *
Xorg: X11R6
Kernal linux-2.6.10-gentoo-r6
Stage tar: stage3-x86-2004.3.tar.bz2
Portage tar: portagemarch2005.tar.bz2 (yeah I changed the filename I think)

I am very aggrivated with this.

If anyone could help me out then I would a VERY happy man.

Thanks.

[edit] Ugh, crap, I accidentely posted this in the games section. Sorry mods, but please, could you move this to the software section? Thanks.

You will get better advice if you post your problem in
Gentoo forums. http://forums.gentoo.org

the command:

will provide more informative details.

Was it working before?
What did you do before you notice the errors?

Implies your processor is Pentium4.

hey there,

The gentoo forums definitely rock. Personally, I post any gentoo related issues there (or join the irc channel), and general linux questions here.

In the past, there has been a bit of confusion over the proper way to update gentoo. I think this is the current and accpeted method. I run this set of commands each night and have had a solid system for awhile.

first sync portage, update all packages in "world", clean out broken dependencies, rebuild all broken dependencies and all is well.


[EDIT] You will need the gentool-kit for a few of these (depclean and revdep-rebuild), so emerge gentool-kit or something similar.

Notice the set of flags for each command. the "p" is pretend, and will list out what would be done if run normally. i.e. emerge -uDNvp world will list out all of the packages that will be updated.

u = update
D = deep
N = newuse
v = verbose
p = pretend

check out portage's manpage for more info. I also run "glsa-check -f all" after all of that. glsa-check is a newer feature that is still marked "testing" though I haven't heard of one major problem with it yet. Glsa is the Gentoo Linux Security Announcements, and the command will update all packages that have resolved security bugs.

I was in your situation earlier this year and I did this to fix my system.

First, I opened my world file for reference (check portage's manpage for it's location). I unmerged all unwanted programs. then I ran:

I'm very happy. Good luck, and use your best judgement. Post to the forum, providing all of the info you think can help, or join #gentoo on irc.freenode.net for more info.

I got the errors after I installed, well, sort of. The problem remained hidden until I tryed to emerge multimedia stuff.

Godsmacker, i'll try what you said. Thanks.