I think there is some missing dep for this package. (maybe something related to python and gnome, but i can't say) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge gnome-extra/hal-device-manager 2.start /usr/bin/hal-device-manager 3. Actual Results: orzel@berlioz /home/orzel% /usr/bin/hal-device-manager Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/hal-device-manager", line 9, in <module> import gnome ImportError: No module named gnome Portage 2.1.3.11 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.22 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.22 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ Timestamp of tree: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:50:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r4, 2.5.1-r2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.10-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.22-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O3 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3.svn/share/config /usr/kde/4.svn/share/config /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.gentoo.org http://gentoo.tiscali.nl/ http://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/gentoo/ http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ http://gentoo.intergenia.de" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LINGUAS="en fr it" MAKEOPTS="-j 3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/gnustep /usr/portage-fh /var/portage/overlays/demexp" SYNC="rsync://gentoo.freehackers.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acl alsa amd64 arts berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 cairo cdda cdio cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dga divx4linux djvu dri dssi dts dv dvb dvd dvdread edl encode exif fam fbcon fbdev ffmpeg fftw flac font-server fortran freebox freetype gdbm gif glitz gnutls gpm gtk hal httpd iconv ilbc imap innodb ipv6 isdnlog jabber java jpeg jpeg2k kde kdrive lame live lm_sensors lua mad matroska midi mmx mmxext mng mozilla mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia obj-gc objc objc++ ogg oggvorbis opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl perlsuid pic png pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection rtc rtsp samba sasl sdl session speex spl sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl stream svg tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb v4l v4l2 vcd vim-syntax vlm vorbis wifi wmf wxwindows x264 xcomposite xine xinerama xorg xv xvid xvmc zeroconf zlib zrtp" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en fr it" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vga vesa" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
I already depends on gnome-python; you really should run python-updater after upgrading python.