After upgrading gcc to gcc-3.3.2-r5 emerge (and I assume many python programs) are broken. Work around/fix: run ldconfig. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge sync 2. emerge -u gcc 3. emerge -up world Actual Results: * Regenerating GNU info directory index... * Processed 0 info files. shire root # emerge -up world /usr/bin/python: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory shire root # ldconfig shire root # emerge -up world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! ..etc Portage 2.0.50 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.23_pre8-gss) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.23_pre8-gss i686 Pentium II (Deschutes) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium2 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium2 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib acl apache2 apm arts avi berkdb crypt cscope cups curl emacs encode ethereal fastcgi foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 icc imap imlib innodb java jpeg kde kerberos ldap libg++ libwww mad maildir mbox mcal memlimit mikmod mmx motif mpeg mpi mysql ncurses nls nocardbus oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png postgres prelude python qt quicktime readline sasl sdl slang snmp socks5 spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype x86 xml xml2 xmms xv zlib"
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 40694 ***