Please help -- weird things on my AMD64 gentoo box...
 

I installed a copy of AMD64 gentoo on my sempron box, but encountered a few weird things which I don't know how to handle... hoping to get some help here.

1. At the login screen, if I go to "configure login manager" from the options menu, it would tell me "you must authenticate as root to run configuration"

2. I emerged mozilla firefox, but it doesn't show up in the menu. When I use the command "firefox" to launch it, it gives me a message saying "no running windows found", and then launches something called "bon echo"... WTF?

Please help... thanks in advance...

1. Did you tried authenticate as root?
2. What is in your DISPLAY variable, when you run mozilla? There should be the address of your x-server display (something like :0.0).

what desktop do you use? kde, gnome or sth else?

I am using Gnome, but never mind... please.

yeah, when it says I need to authenticate, it actually prompts me for password, but with the stupid sun-flower login screen, it wasn't that obvious.

bon echo is the new firefox2... who'd figured that out?

but thanks for all the help...