$ gdb /usr/bin/python GNU gdb 6.7.1 Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"... (no debugging symbols found) Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/bin/python (no debugging symbols found) warning: no loadable sections found in added symbol-file system-supplied DSO at 0x7fff5bdfe000 (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jan 18 2008, 12:07:12) [GCC 4.2.2 (Gentoo 4.2.2 p1.0)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) >>> help("modules pyopengl") (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) Here is a list of matching modules. Enter any module name to get more help. (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x00002aaaaaab8de1 in Togl_Init () from /usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/OpenGL/Tk/linux2-tk8.4/Togl.so (gdb) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. see above 2. 3. Expected Results: show documentation or not, never crash Looks like it could be related with swig, as it complains about the swig version.
Oops, forgot the version in the summary
Please review the following howto and reopen with a useful backtrace and emerge --info output... http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml