From: dfnsonfsduifb@gmx.de   
      
   Hello group,   
      
   I always was very happy about the conservative way Gentoo masked   
   packages and have never experienced any trouble I couldn't solve my   
   myself (and Google/RTFM). So I was of good hope when I saw that Gnome   
   2.26.3 was masked stable and decided to run a emerge -uD   
   world/revdep-rebuild.   
      
   Wow, what a mistake.   
      
   1. First thing I noticed after restarting the gdm, Keyboard and Mouse   
   weren't working. The X server log revealed that the xf86-keyboard and   
   -mouse drivers were of the incorrect version. Reemerging fixed those. I   
   *really* don't know why this isn't done automatically.   
      
   2. So, all the icons are gone, all the settings wrong. Yeah, I switched   
   from 2.18, so I figured this could happen. Removed ~/.gnome2   
   ~/.gnome2_private ~/.gconf etcetc, restarted the X server - okay,   
   looking somewhat nice again. Fonts are weird (they look different, no,   
   it's not my subpixel rendering settings) though and I do not have any   
   background picture anymore. Hmmm, weird.   
      
   3. The mouse cursor always stays a hourglass when on the desktop. Hmmm,   
   weird.   
      
   4. The system is constantly consuming 100% CPU of one of my CPUs. Top   
   shows gvfsd-trash going totally crazy and a whole freaking bunch of   
   nautilus zombies. ~/.xsession-errors shows   
      
      
   process 9159: Attempt to remove filter function 0x7f644f3173ed user data   
   0x86bad0, but no such filter has been added   
     D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace   
   ** Message: Initializing gksu extension...   
      
   ** (nautilus:9161): WARNING **: Failed to initialize hal : (null)   
      
   process 9161: Attempt to remove filter function 0x7fd3a37563ed user data   
   0x8c9a20, but no such filter has been added   
     D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace   
   ** Message: Initializing gksu extension...   
      
   ** (nautilus:9163): WARNING **: Failed to initialize hal : (null)   
      
   process 9163: Attempt to remove filter function 0x7f5771b863ed user data   
   0x86e220, but no such filter has been added   
     D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace   
   ** Message: Initializing gksu extension...   
      
   ** (nautilus:9165): WARNING **: Failed to initialize hal : (null)   
      
   process 9165: Attempt to remove filter function 0x7f748e1f93ed user data   
   0x8ceca0, but no such filter has been added   
     D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace   
      
   ...Too much output, ignoring rest...   
      
   This goes on for around   
      
   joequad [/home/joe]: wc -l .xsession-errors   
   4089 .xsession-errors   
      
   4000 lines. Swell.   
      
   5. Nautilus doesn't work at all. When I try to fire it up:   
      
   joequad joe [~]: nautilus   
      
   (nautilus:4480): Unique-Bacon-WARNING **: Unable to send message: no   
   connection to the running instance found (stale named pipe)   
      
   Awesome, bacon! I love bacon! WTF?!   
      
   6. Restarting Gnome sometimes gives me the message that Gnome terminated   
   in less than 10 seconds and a backtrace (which I cannot copy and paste   
   as the X session is terminated immediately again). Haven't seen that   
   kind of crap in the last 5 years.   
      
   7. Thunderbird is not in the Applications menu anymore, great.   
      
   8. After restarting, Gnome icons sometimes disappear and reappear to   
   their own liking (are replaced by a white sheet of paper with a red   
   cross in them).   
      
   All in all - what the hell. I've never been so disappointed by a Gnome   
   release like this. To me it looks like this thing has not been testes   
   throughly. Why did it then make it into Gentoo stable? Or am I the only   
   person experiencing such difficulties?   
      
   Regards,   
   Johannes   
      
   --   
   "Aus starken Potentialen können starke Erdbeben resultieren; es können   
   aber auch kleine entstehen - und "du" wirst es nicht für möglich halten   
   (!), doch sieh': Es können dabei auch gar keine Erdbeben resultieren."   
   -- "Rüdiger Thomas" alias Thomas Schulz in dsa über seine "Vorhersagen"   
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