After emerging xorg-x11-6.8.2-r8 during an emerge world, portage refused to emerge the followng ebuild, xterm. This was due to python not working, which was due to shared libraries in /usr/lib not being available due to a bad symlink: /usr/lib64 pointed to /lib instead of to /usr/lib. Correcting this solves the issue. Rationality for 'major' severity: This is a quite scary bug, as portage does not work and after rebooting x11 does not start. Fix suggestion: mask this -r8 ebuild for amd64; modify ebuild to an -r9 one so that the symlink error is fixed and make that one stable. And do it _fast_, a lot of users are going to have this problem. Related forum post <http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-475692-highlight-.html>.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 132135 ***
