[gentoo-user] Re: Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2

[Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>]

>> Amazon Streaming is broken and installing hal fixes it according to
>> the following thread:
>>
>> http://www.amazon.com/forum/amazon%20video%20on%20demand?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx3EQAX98ED5WQ3&cdPage=1&cdSort=newest&cdThread=TxFTGOK5LRL3JM
>>
>> I added the layman overlays multilib and kde-sunset in order to
>> install hal, but the emerge fails because it can't download
>> hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2.  The following thread provides a
>> few links to this file but they no longer work, and I tried
>> downloading hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-4.tar.bz2, extracting, adding
>> the missing file as indicated, and recreating the bz2 tar archive, but
>> there is a checksum failure with that file:
>>
>> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-906838-start-0.html
>>
>> Does anyone have advice for navigating this?
>>
>> - Grant
>
> I was able to install hal via the kde-sunset overlay instead of the
> multilib overlay.  Now instead of the "Updating Player" error, flash
> crashes like this in firefox and chrome:
>
> chrome[3681]: segfault at 18 ip 00007f677543202c sp 00007f6764804e00
> error 4 in libdbus-1.so.3.5.8[7f6775422000+3e000]
>
> plugin-containe[3727]: segfault at 18 ip 00007fd0225d502c sp
> 00007fd0118bce00 error 4 in libdbus-1.so.3.5.8[7fd0225c5000+3e000]
>
> I re-emerged dbus to no avail.  Any ideas?
>
> - Grant

It's working!  I had forgotten to start hald.  Now all of the videos
on Amazon Prime are working.

- Grant