Updating HAL error [solved]

dbeer · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Oct 2004 Posts: 82

Hi,

I am trying to update HAL to hal-0.5.5.1-r3. I have unmerged and re-emerged and still have problems. Below is the message i get printed to the command line:

jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-1.79/html/dblink.dsl:203:1:E: XRef LinkEnd to missing ID 'using-devices'
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-1.79/html/dblink.dsl:203:1:E: XRef LinkEnd to missing ID 'properties-policy'
jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-1.79/html/dblink.dsl:203:1:E: XRef LinkEnd to missing ID 'stor-vol-policy'
make[3]: *** [hal-spec.html] Error 8
make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/portage/hal-0.5.5.1-r3/work/hal-0.5.5.1/doc/spec'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/portage/hal-0.5.5.1-r3/work/hal-0.5.5.1/doc'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/portage/hal-0.5.5.1-r3/work/hal-0.5.5.1'
make: *** [all] Error 2

I belive this the problem.

Any help would be great.

mars-red · Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 3:38 pm Post subject:

Yeah, I'm getting exactly the same errors on quite a few packages. I recently found this post: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-426010-highlight-sgml.html which leads me to believe it may be caused by libxslt. I am going to try re-emerging libxslt later on to see if that takes care of my problems. I will post back here to let you know whether or not it worked.

-Max
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dbeer · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Oct 2004 Posts: 82

Hi,

Seems thatt you may be right there seems to be som errors with sgml as well.

Will have a look.

David

dbeer · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Oct 2004 Posts: 82

Hi,

I tried re-emerging libxslt and that didn't make any difference.

Any ideas.

David

mars-red · Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 9:08 pm Post subject:

I'm trying to remember the super-ugly way I got around this before - it was several days ago. There was a directory for sgml that had only a few (like 6 or 7 - not very many) files in it - it may have been /usr/sgml ... I'm at work right now, so I can't verify that. Wherever it was, I removed the few files that were in that sgml directory and then re-emerged all docbook and sgml related packages (I did an emerge --search for docbook and sgml, and re-emerged any of those that were already on my system). The first time through, a couple of the emerges displayed warnings that the directory I mentioned before was empty, but one of the packages restored those files because I re-emerged the same packages a second time and got no more warning. After that, the package that was giving me the errors you are getting was able to finish emerging.

I wish I could find some info on what the actual problem is here. I know nothing about sgml - maybe now is the time to start learning.

When I get a chance to look at this later on, I will post back here with the name of the directory that I wiped out.
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mars-red · Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 1:50 am Post subject:

Okay, I just checked and the directory I emptied was /etc/sgml
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mars-red · Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 2:15 am Post subject:

Maybe try re-emerging openjade as well. It produces at least some of that /usr/share/sgml stuff.
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mars-red · Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 2:26 am Post subject:

Nothing I try seems to be helping at all. The specific package I'm having problems with right now is esound. I just get a slew of "element undefined" errors when it's trying to compile the docs at the end. It's driving me nuts. I *need* to finish this emerge world to complete my gcc3.4 migration.
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dbeer · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Oct 2004 Posts: 82

Hi mars-red,

thanks for trying I have tried unmerging and merging pacakges. I even tried openjade with no difference I know a little about SGML. The basic idea is that it is similar to HTML and XML with a few subtle difference. It is another Markup Language, see the folloeing link on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGML.

I think this may be to do with documentation. I am looking into this a bit further.

David

dbeer · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Oct 2004 Posts: 82

Hi,

I have got hal to complie on my system! It appears the problem is to do with the documentation. You need to make sure that the USE flag for doc is taken of, so enter:

dbeer · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Oct 2004 Posts: 82

Hi,

It appears that I have not fixed it. When I run

dbeer · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Oct 2004 Posts: 82

Hi,

The problem with emerge world goes away if you have the latest version of dbus and hal installed and then do a sync.

David

mars-red · Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 9:55 pm Post subject:

Wow, strange. I found this page: http://dev.gentoo.org/~satai/sgmlfix.html which has fixed my problems. I have no idea why this 4 year old problem was suddenly an issue on my 1 year old machine... but I guess it doesn't matter now.

Whew.
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96140 · Retired Dev Joined: 23 Jan 2005 Posts: 1324

I've had problems with the latest hal, as well. I ended up running revdep-rebuild after the update; that seemed to fix things.