hal-0.5.5.1-r3 failed

[emollon]

I´using kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 and I´m trying to

[GoofballJM1]

Probably not, I would suggest upgrading your kernel though. I know I get a little nervous when I upgrade as well, but if your version is really old and you want to use software that is taking advantage of newer features, its probably better to do that than patching an older kernel IMHO.

Why are you hesitant about upgrading your kernel?
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[dgaffuri]

Do you have the hal USE flag set?

[emollon]

This is what i have

[Tamsco]

That's probably going to break a package, just put a -hal in your use variable.
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Is OpenOffice still compiling?!

[dgaffuri]

hashalot doesn't matter, it's only matching the pattern. If you don't want hal you have to explicitly rule it out by adding -hal to your USE variables in /etc/make.conf. Then you should check which package, if any, should be rebuilt using

[emollon]

Doing that i just get a list of packages

[dgaffuri]

[emollon]

Another way to emerge hal
if i do that

[dgaffuri]

You may choose to use hal or not. Look at http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/hal to make yourself an opinion. If you don't want to use it just add -hal to /etc/make.conf and go on with emerging gnome-light. If you want to use it you've two options: update your kernel or mask newer versions of hal in /etc/portage/package.mask (see man portage for details).

BTW, if you decide to update the whole system you're going to upgrade gcc too, so be sure to follow this guide to avoid bre[url]aking your syst[/url]em.
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