Exactly like bug 52025 says, it segfaults after the splash screen. Segfault Message: python[688]: segfault at 0000000000e35000 rip 0000002a95d60f6a rsp 0000007fbfffdc38 error 6 ebuild versions I'm using: Eric-3.4.2 qscintilla-1.60 PyQt-3.12 sip-4.0_rc2 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.exec eric3 2. 3. Actual Results: Splash screen appears, then segfaults. Expected Results: Opened up an IDE for Python coding. :-) My emerge info: Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-amd64-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.4.20040605-r0, 2.6 .7-gentoo-r11) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.7-gentoo-r11 x86_64 5 Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/s hare/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linu x/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa amd64 apache2 apm berkdb cdr crypt dvd encode fastcgi ftp gdbm gif g pm gtk imlib innodb java jpeg libg++ libwww mbox motif mozilla mpeg multilib ncu rses nls nogcj oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl php png python qt readline sdl s lang sockets spell ssl tcltk tcpd truetype usb xml2 xmms xsl xv xvid zeo zlib"
Weirdness. On a whim I unemerged Eric3, PyQt, sip, qscintilla and qt in that order and emerged them individually in the reverse order. Guess what, it works great now! ebuild versions I'm now using: Eric-3.4.2 qscintilla-1.60 PyQt-3.12 sip-4.0.1 qt-3.3.2