Hello This is just to stop others sharing the misfortune that occurred to me. I updated glibc to 2.3.2-r9 on stable x86 tree and it broke python, portage and also most applications.
Do NOT perform this update until bug 38619 [1] has been worked out. Dhruba. [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38619 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list