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From: Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo mailing list <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:33:52
Message-Id: CAN0CFw0fB3C3rwrAyNRLyyHgH9=pzs55ciRY653pgNFtf-5eyQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2 by Grant
1 >> Amazon Streaming is broken and installing hal fixes it according to
2 >> the following thread:
3 >>
4 >> http://www.amazon.com/forum/amazon%20video%20on%20demand?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx3EQAX98ED5WQ3&cdPage=1&cdSort=newest&cdThread=TxFTGOK5LRL3JM
5 >>
6 >> I added the layman overlays multilib and kde-sunset in order to
7 >> install hal, but the emerge fails because it can't download
8 >> hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2.  The following thread provides a
9 >> few links to this file but they no longer work, and I tried
10 >> downloading hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-4.tar.bz2, extracting, adding
11 >> the missing file as indicated, and recreating the bz2 tar archive, but
12 >> there is a checksum failure with that file:
13 >>
14 >> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-906838-start-0.html
15 >>
16 >> Does anyone have advice for navigating this?
17 >>
18 >> - Grant
19 >
20 > I was able to install hal via the kde-sunset overlay instead of the
21 > multilib overlay.  Now instead of the "Updating Player" error, flash
22 > crashes like this in firefox and chrome:
23 >
24 > chrome[3681]: segfault at 18 ip 00007f677543202c sp 00007f6764804e00
25 > error 4 in libdbus-1.so.3.5.8[7f6775422000+3e000]
26 >
27 > plugin-containe[3727]: segfault at 18 ip 00007fd0225d502c sp
28 > 00007fd0118bce00 error 4 in libdbus-1.so.3.5.8[7fd0225c5000+3e000]
29 >
30 > I re-emerged dbus to no avail.  Any ideas?
31 >
32 > - Grant
33
34 It's working! I had forgotten to start hald. Now all of the videos
35 on Amazon Prime are working.
36
37 - Grant

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