[gentoo-user] error opening gramps

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 08:43:17 -0800 

Hello, Gentooers,

I just tried opening gramps after a very long period of disuse. It
fails to open and gives this error message:

13254: ERROR: dbloader.py: line 107: can't load database backend: 'bsddb'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/gramps/gui/dbloader.py",
line 188, in read_file
    db = make_database(dbid)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/gramps/gen/db/utils.py",
line 88, in make_database
    raise Exception(f"can't load database backend: '{plugin_id}'")
Exception: can't load database backend: 'bsddb'

I am up to date with portage, and running gramps-6.0.4, which was
updated Nov 10, 2025 from gramps-5.2.3. Gramps was built with these
use flags:

* Found these USE flags for app-misc/gramps-6.0.4:
 U I
 + + exif                            : Add support for reading EXIF
headers from JPEG and TIFF images
 + + geo                             : Enable rendering of
geographical data using sci-geosciences/osm-gps-map
 + + postscript                      : Enable support for the
PostScript language (often with ghostscript-gpl or libspectre)
 - - python_single_target_python3_11 : Build for Python 3.11 only
 - - python_single_target_python3_12 : Build for Python 3.12 only
 + + python_single_target_python3_13 : Build for Python 3.13 only
 + + rcs                             : Adds support for family tree
archives via dev-vcs/rcs
 + + reports                         : All external software that is
needed for graphical reports will be installed
 + + spell                           : Add dictionary support
 - - test                            : Enable dependencies and/or
preparations necessary to run tests (usually controlled by
                                       FEATURES=test but can be
toggled independently)

https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Install_latest_BSDDB/tr
suggests that the latest versions of gramps have encountered database
problems and that upgrading sys-libs/db and python interfaces to db
have helped. Their suggested db version is not supported by gentoo.
And their suggested python interface, dev-python/berkeleydb, is not
brought in by gramps-6.0.4.

Before I dive deeply down a rabbit hole to fix this, has anybody
encountered such a problem with gramps? Any suggestions on next steps?

Thanks!

John Blinka
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