vmplayer prints the following message and hangs at startup: /opt/vmware/player/lib/bin/vmplayer: /opt/vmware/player/lib/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2) Happens with vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r1 and vmware-player-1.0.2.29634. emerge --info Portage 2.1.2_rc1-r6 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.18-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6 Last Sync: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 19:00:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 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: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -pipe -O2" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/NX/etc /usr/NX/home /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -pipe -O2" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.ynet.sk/pub ftp://ftp.nyx.hu/gentoo http://gentoo.inf.elte.hu/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org/" LANG="en_US.utf8" MAKEOPTS="-j2" 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" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X a52 aac aalib accessibility acl acpi adns alsa apache2 apm audiofile avahi avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 cairo cdparanoia cdr cjk cli cracklib crypt cscope ctype cups curl dba dbus directfb dlloader doc dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr eds elibc_glibc emacs emboss encode esd ethereal evo exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac font-server foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm ggi gif glut gmp gnome gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal iconv idn imagemagick imap imlib input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog java javascript jpeg junit kerberos kernel_linux lcms ldap libcaca libg++ libwww lirc mad maildir matroska memlimit mikmod mmx mng mono motif mp3 mpeg mysql nas ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pda pdf perl php png posix ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection ruby samba sasl sdl seamonkey session simplexml slang soap sockets socks5 speex spell spl sqlite sse ssl startup-notification svg svga tcl tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff tk tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU v4l vcd video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia vorbis win32codecs wmf xine xinerama xml xml2 xorg xpm xsl xv xvid zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
This is weird: on my other box it pops up the 'End User Agreement' window and freezes when clicking 'accept' on it.
After deleting ~/.vmware on my first machine it works similarly to my second one. Vmplayer pops up the license agreement window, and freezes when clicking accept. But it works when I run it as root.
Appears to be a duplicate of bug #157633. According to http://forums.gentoo.org//viewtopic-t-512688-highlight-vmplayer.html, running vmplayer with an argument of the location of the VMX file you want to use will allow you to run as non-root.
I don't think these are the same problem. One appears to be due to a lack of files, or difficultly loading up png files. This bug seems to be about vmware-player freezing on startup. I run vmware without problems, but still get the libpng warning message, so that warning isn't necessarily the cause of the hang... The forum thread that you pointed out also suggests that it could be related to the dbus issue (bug 155450). For the time being though, we'll leave this bug as is. Thanks for the extra info though... 5:)
Upgrading to dbus 1.x fixed this for me (I'm the reporter), so this is really a dupe of Bug 155450 and Bug 157633. Turns out that the lockup had nothing to do with those warnings.
*** Bug 157633 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This bug is not a duplicate, the original problems I had was running as root and they were due to missing files. I found the .desktop file so that part is not an issue. When running not as root I do notice the hang issue mentioned here when I ran it without a VM argument. Paul
Please try out 1.0.3, which is now in portage. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 155450 ***
