diff --git a/renderscript/1.0/default/Android.bp b/renderscript/1.0/default/Android.bp
index b9969697fe..d5d6d8d3ea 100644
--- a/renderscript/1.0/default/Android.bp
+++ b/renderscript/1.0/default/Android.bp
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ cc_library_shared {
     ],
     shared_libs: [
         "libdl",
-        "liblog",
+        "libbase",
         "libhidlbase",
         "libhidltransport",
         "libutils",
diff --git a/renderscript/1.0/default/Context.cpp b/renderscript/1.0/default/Context.cpp
index fbfc6522c4..f5b70c9fa8 100644
--- a/renderscript/1.0/default/Context.cpp
+++ b/renderscript/1.0/default/Context.cpp
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-#define LOG_TAG "android.hardware.renderscript@1.0-impl"
-
 #include "Context.h"
 #include "Device.h"
 
diff --git a/renderscript/1.0/default/Device.cpp b/renderscript/1.0/default/Device.cpp
index a2b950ded4..8fda3ff1e2 100644
--- a/renderscript/1.0/default/Device.cpp
+++ b/renderscript/1.0/default/Device.cpp
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #include "Context.h"
 #include "Device.h"
 
+#include <android-base/logging.h>
 #include <android/dlext.h>
 #include <dlfcn.h>
 
@@ -54,12 +55,18 @@ dispatchTable loadHAL() {
                 .flags = ANDROID_DLEXT_USE_NAMESPACE, .library_namespace = rsNamespace,
             };
             handle = android_dlopen_ext(filename, RTLD_LAZY | RTLD_LOCAL, &dlextinfo);
+            if (handle == nullptr) {
+                LOG(WARNING) << "android_dlopen_ext(" << filename << ") failed: " << dlerror();
+            }
         }
     }
     if (handle == nullptr) {
         // if there is no "rs" namespace (in case when this HAL impl is loaded
         // into a vendor process), then use the plain dlopen.
         handle = dlopen(filename, RTLD_LAZY | RTLD_LOCAL);
+        if (handle == nullptr) {
+            LOG(FATAL) << "dlopen(" << filename << ") failed: " << dlerror();
+        }
     }
 
     dispatchTable dispatchHal = {