I like Gentoo…I love it! But I have to admit: sometimes I just want a dumb Linux that just works!

I launched a world update during the night, and this morning, after checking the /etc files, I just logged-out, logged-in to check if everything worked fine…

Guess what… X didn’t want to start anymore: cannot load nvidia driver… re-emerging nvidia-glx did the trick. But then started the struggle to let firefox work in FVWM!!! Note that it worked right with KDE or XFCE…and it worked with FVWM before the world update…

After some googling and gentoo forums search, it seemed that I had to upgrade FVWM to a masked version (2.5.14 for amd64) to let firefox (and thunderbird, which both use the mozilla-launcher script to start) start again. Apparently, FVWM (and fluxbox) makes firefox start under the wallpaper…(check this bug report).

Finally, everything is working fine now… Each problem has a solution with gentoo…the only problem is to find it 😉