[gentoo-user] Re: /usr/lib/libgdbm_compat.so.3: undefined symbol: __guard

[Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>]

> I get this when emerging python on a system I'm bringing up to date
> after 3 years of non-use:
>
> *** WARNING: renaming "dbm" since importing it failed:
> /usr/lib/libgdbm_compat.so.3: undefined symbol: __guard
>
> The compile eventually fails with:
>
> Failed to find the necessary bits to build these modules:
> _bsddb             _tkinter           bsddb185
> sunaudiodev
> To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() for
> the module's name.
>
> Failed to build these modules:
> dbm
>
> running build_scripts
> creating build/scripts-2.6
> copying and adjusting
> /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.6.7-r2/work/Python-2.6.7/Tools/scripts/pydoc
> -> build/scripts-2.6
> copying and adjusting
> /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.6.7-r2/work/Python-2.6.7/Tools/scripts/idle
> -> build/scripts-2.6
> copying and adjusting
> /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.6.7-r2/work/Python-2.6.7/Tools/scripts/2to3
> -> build/scripts-2.6
> copying and adjusting
> /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.6.7-r2/work/Python-2.6.7/Lib/smtpd.py
> -> build/scripts-2.6
> changing mode of build/scripts-2.6/pydoc from 644 to 755
> changing mode of build/scripts-2.6/idle from 644 to 755
> changing mode of build/scripts-2.6/2to3 from 644 to 755
> changing mode of build/scripts-2.6/smtpd.py from 644 to 755
> make: *** [sharedmods] Error 1
>
> This is python-2.6 but I get the same from 2.7 and 3.1.  I was able to
> emerge python-2.6 earlier in the updating process so I'm not sure why
> it's failing now.  I'm halfway through an emerge -e world to see if
> that helps.  The system is up-to-date now and working fine although I
> still need to update the kernel, gcc won't compile above 4.3.4, and
> udev gets crazy above 141.  I'm on this profile:
>
> hardened/linux/x86
>
> Any ideas?
>
> - Grant

emerge -e world fixed this.

- Grant