gajim and gramps work fine with python-2.6.5-r3, but are broken with 2.6.6-r1: $ python -c "import ctypes" Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/ctypes/__init__.py", line 546, in <module> CFUNCTYPE(c_int)(lambda: None) MemoryError Portage 2.1.9.25 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.4, glibc-2.11.2-r3, 2.6.36-gentoo-r5 x86_64) ================================================================= Timestamp of tree: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 17:45:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-lang/python: 2.6.6-r1 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r9 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1-r1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.6.8 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.65-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.4-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.10 sys-devel/make: 3.81-r2 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 (sys-kernel/linux-headers) ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/openvpn/easy-rsa /usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs ccache distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict test unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="ru en" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/nikoli" USE="7zip X a52 aac acl acpi akonadi alsa amd64 amr ares atm audiofile bash-completion bluetooth bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cdio cdparanoia cdr celt cli consolekit cracklib crypt css cups cxx dbus djvu dri dts dv dvd dvdr emboss encode exif ffmpeg firefox flac fluidsynth fontconfig fortran gd gdu geoip gif gimp glitz gmp gnutls gphoto2 gpm graphviz gsm gstreamer gtk hal handbook iconv id3tag idn ieee1394 ilbc imagemagick imap imlib iphone ipod ipv6 jbig jpeg jpeg2k kde kipi kontact ladspa lame laptop lcms libproxy libsamplerate libwww lm_sensors lzma lzo mad matroska mikmod mmx mmxext mng modplug modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mtp mudflap multilib musepack musicbrainz ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ntfs nvidia obex ogg openal openexr opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf perl pg-intdatetime phonon plasma pm-utils png policykit ppds pppd qt3support qt4 quicktime rar raw readline reiserfs rtmp sasl scanner schroedinger semantic-desktop session smp sndfile socks5 speex spell sqlite sse sse2 sse3 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg symlink sysfs taglib theora threads thumbnail tiff truetype tta udev unicode upnp usb v4l v4l2 vaapi vcd vdpau vorbis vpx wavpack webkit wifi wma wmf wps x264 xcb xcomposite xface xml xmp xorg xpm xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid zip zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci 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 mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="ru en" NGINX_MODULES_HTTP="access auth_basic autoindex fastcgi gzip rewrite" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nouveau nv nvidia vesa" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" P.S. Not sure if this bug is duplicate of bug 342893 or bug 324555
Can you try with something more recent, like 2.7.2?
python -c "import ctypes" , gajim and gramps works fine with dev-lang/python-2.7.1-r1
Then I'll just close this as fixed, thanks for reporting back!
