Unable to log in kde if not root after an emerge

[orzetto]

Hi all,
here's my last grief... I just ran an emerge -up somepackagesthatweretobeupdated, among which xfree-r4, though the misbehaviour started before its merge, already during the compile time; now I can't log in in KDE. It is supposed to be an authorisation problem (I already fixed the /dev/nvidia0 and /dev/nvidiactl authorisation issues), and is not this one about gcc 3.3.2.

What happens when I log in kde 3.2 is that I am told by klauncher that it is not possible to create an io slave, and all other apps fall like domino pieces, incuding pager, systray apps, and so on, until I'm left with a blank screen and I can't do much but log out.

However, logging in as root works, so it should be a configuration problem, not broken binaries. Any ideas? Pleeeez....

-Federico
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[orzetto]

Thanks for the suggestions, but I had already tried those. It seems that some libraries, like minipager.panelapplet.la, were marked -rwx------, so that only root could access them. A