I wanted to learn Python so I tried starting idle. It wouldn't work (the exact message is in the forum thread I linked). I solved the problem upgrading tk to unstale 8.4.18-r1 Reproducible: Always szczerb@nomad ~ $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.6.7 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, 2.6.28-gentoo-r1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.28-gentoo-r1-x86_64-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_Dual_CPU_T2370_@_1.73GHz-with-glibc2.2.5 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:15:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.28-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps=y" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.vectranet.pl/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.vectranet.pl/gentoo/ http://gentoo.prz.rzeszow.pl http://gentoo.zie.pg.gda.pl http://gentoo.po.opole.pl ftp://gentoo.po.opole.pl ftp://mirror.icis.pcz.pl/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirror.pw.edu.pl/ " LANG="pl_PL.utf8" LC_ALL="pl_PL.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="pl en" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 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" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/portage/local/layman/wschlich-testing /usr/portage/local/layman/synce /usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/portage/local/layman/rbu /usr/portage/local/layman/jokey /usr/portage/local/layman/x11 /usr/portage/local/layman/pro-audio" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac aalib acl acpi alsa amd64 apache2 apm avahi bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 c3p0 cairo caps cdda cddb cdr cli cracklib crypt css cups curl cxx dbus dedicated dga djvu doc dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo exif fbcon ffmpeg flac fltk fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gimp glut gnome gnome-keyring gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtkhtml guile hal hddtemp iconv idn ieee1394 imagemagick imlib inotify ipv6 java javamail javascript jbig joystick jpeg jpeg2k kerberos lame latex lcms ldap libcaca libgda libnotify lm_sensors log4j lzo mad matroska midi mikmod mime mmx mng mono mp3 mpeg mplayer mudflap multilib musepack mysql ncurses networkmanager nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin odbc offensive ogg openal openexr opengl openmp pam pcmcia pcre pda pdf perl php png portaudio ppds python qt3support qt4 quicktime rdesktop readline reflection samba scanner sdl servletapi session slang speex spell sqlite sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd theora threads tiff timidity tk truetype unicode usb vcd videos vim-syntax vorbis wavpack webkit wifi wma wmf x264 xattr xcb xcomposite xine xinerama xml xorg xosd xpm xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" 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 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" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="pl en" NETBEANS_MODULES="apisupport harness cnd groovy gsf ide identity j2ee java mobility nb php profiler soa visualweb webcommon websvccommon xml" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
