Bugzilla Bug 192611

The topic should be fairly self-explaining ;)

emerge --info
Portage 2.1.3.9 (selinux/2007.0/x86/hardened, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.5-r4,
2.6.20-hardened-r6 i686)
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System uname: 2.6.20-hardened-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.20GHz
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:50:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p17
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0_rc4-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.61-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.24
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.21
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -msse2 -mfpmath=sse -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release
/etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -msse2 -mfpmath=sse -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="collision-protect distlocks loadpolicy metadata-transfer nodoc noinfo
parallel-fetch sandbox selinux sesandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans
userfetch userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.ing.unibo.it/gentoo/"
LINGUAS="en en_US"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages
--filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts caps cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri
gnutls gpm hardened iconv isdnlog kerberos ldap midi mudflap ncurses nls nptl
nptlonly openmp pam pcre pic pppd python readline reflection samba sasl selinux
session socks5 spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl tcpd truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode
x86 xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106
cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0
intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci"
ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file
hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route
share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev"
KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001
mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_US" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="apm ark
chips cirrus cyrix dummy fbdev glint i128 i740 i810 imstt mach64 mga neomagic
nsc nv r128 radeon rendition s3 s3virge savage siliconmotion sis sisusb tdfx
tga trident tseng v4l vesa vga via vmware voodoo"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS,
PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS,
PORTDIR_OVERLAY

This looks like a problem about dbm module's linkage which I've fixed in
versions python-2.4.4-r8 and python-2.5.1-r5 ( see bug 204343 ). Please reoopen
if the problem isn't fixed. Thanks for reporting ;)