Output of emerge --info: Portage 2.1.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 Last Sync: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 04:30:01 +0000 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.6-r1, 2.0.28-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fvisibility-inlines-hidden" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig candy distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common -s" LINGUAS="en" 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'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/portage/local/layman/portage-xgl" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acpi aim alsa aotuv apache2 apm artworkextra asf avahi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cddb cdparanoia cdr cjk cli crypt cups dbus dga directfb dlloader dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eds elibc_glibc emboss encode esd exif fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gdbm geoip ggi gif glitz gnome gnutls gpm graphviz gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile hal howl imagemagick imlib input_devices_joystick input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog java javascript joystick jpeg jpeg2k kde kernel_linux ldap libcaca libg++ libwww linguas_en lm_sensors mad matroska mikmod mmx mng modplug motif mp3 mpeg msn mysql nas ncurses nls nptl nptlonly offensive ogg openal opengl oss pam pcre perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline real reflection sdl session speex spell spl sse ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU v4l vcd video_cards_fbdev video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia video_cards_vesa vidix vorbis win32codecs wmf xine xml xmms xorg xosd xpm xprint xv xvid xvmc yahoo zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Adding full log of the emerge, as well as the logfile produced from the access violation.
Created attachment 97510 [details] Full log of the emerge process for ~x86 media-sound/rhythmbox-0.9.5
Created attachment 97511 [details] Log file of access violations from ~x86 media-sound/rhythmbox-0.9.5 emerge
please try with 0.9.6 and make sure your system is updated.