ruby-gtk2 problem for gnome2-power-tools

[Randy Bush]

> No idea, pointyhat, two tinderboxes and my system can't reproduce it. 

i assume it's some local kink

> All I can think of is to remove all ruby-gtk2/ruby-gnome2 ports and redo.

hmmm.  which ones?

# ls -ld /var/db/pkg/ruby*
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Nov 20 16:48 /var/db/pkg/ruby-1.8.3/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Nov 10 04:24 /var/db/pkg/ruby18-bdb1-0.2.2/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Nov 20 16:48 /var/db/pkg/ruby18-cairo-1.0.0/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Nov 20 16:48 /var/db/pkg/ruby18-glib2-0.14.0/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Nov 20 16:48 /var/db/pkg/ruby18-pango-0.14.1/
# ls -ld /var/db/pkg/*gtk*
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Nov 10 14:49 /var/db/pkg/gtk-1.2.10_13/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Nov 10 14:50 /var/db/pkg/gtk-2.8.6_1/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Nov 10 04:48 /var/db/pkg/gtk-engines2-2.6.5_2/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Nov 19 12:45 /var/db/pkg/gtk-sharp-1.0.10_5/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Nov 19 12:48 /var/db/pkg/gtk-sharp-2.3.92/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Nov 10 04:48 /var/db/pkg/gtkhtml3-3.8.1/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Nov 10 04:48 /var/db/pkg/gtkmm-2.8.1/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Nov 10 04:48 /var/db/pkg/gtksourceview-1.4.2/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Nov 10 04:48 /var/db/pkg/gtkspell2-2.0.11_1/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Nov 10 04:48 /var/db/pkg/libgtkhtml-2.11.0/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Nov 10 04:45 /var/db/pkg/linux-gtk2-2.2.4/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Nov 10 14:50 /var/db/pkg/mplayer-gtk-esound-0.99.7_6/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Nov 10 04:48 /var/db/pkg/py24-gtk-2.8.2/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Nov 10 04:48 /var/db/pkg/rep-gtk2-gnome-0.18_4,1/

the only ones that look tasty to my uneducted eye are
  rep-gtk2-gnome-0.18_4,1
  ruby18-pango-0.14.1

randy