Same emerge error every time I compile a package [Solved]

[micia]

there is an issue with that, if you used that version of portage and python-updater, you basically can't know if something has gone wrong

However if your system is still running, it is nothing critical.
I am not very confident with portage but I think that the default procedure is to set your python version using:

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eselect python


the the new version.
In this stage both the new version of python and the old version of python have to be installed, otherwise your system will blow
then run:

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python-updater


(if you want to just see a preview use the -p argument)
if python-updater complains about some package, be sure to re-emerge it manually to be sure that everything is fine.
Now use emerge world, emerge <whatever> world.
If all is fine, you can now unmerge the old python version.

Don't run any programs as root

use sudo or gksu/ kdesu as user to run them

Actually with gksu/kdesu or sudo, you are running applications as root, sudo is discouraged in Sabayon, you should use su in its place (even if this is not mandatory), to execute correctly a GUI application as root using su, you have to run:

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su -


the man pages explain the difference between this and a simple su, without any argument.
However for these applications, using gksu or kdesu, according to your Desktop Environment, is the recommended way.

[AshPhoenix]

Ahh, I'm pretty sure I fixed it; it seems i had set the default python interpreter as Python 3.1 using eselect python. Changing it back seemed to fix it. Thanks to all those who helped and replied; I shall mark this as solved.