Bug 106684 – vmware workstation 4.5.2.8848 r7 will now power-on guest operating systems

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Chad Granum 2005-09-20 08:16:57 UTC]

been using vmware 4.5 for a long time, valid liscence, never any problems
before. ran emerg sync && emerge -uDv world, it updated vmware-workstation to
-r7 (>=5.0 is masked, need 4.5). After upgrade the guest operating systems will
no longer power-on. I hit play, I use control+b I go to power->power on. Try
executing vmware with -x flag to start up executing guest os. Nothing will start
it. No error messages, nothing in dmesg, nothing w/ modules. Re-ran config,
tried uninstall and complete removal then re-install. Tried new guest os. Did
not happen before upgrade, masking -r7 seems to mask all versions of 4.5 so I
cannot revert to previous version.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.install latest vmware
2.create guest os, or use old one
3.try power-on of guest os.

Actual Results:  
nit sits there as though yo never told it to power on

Expected Results:  
power-on

GMA-Server gmaaia # emerge info
Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r1,
2.6.12-gentoo-r10-GMAAIA i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r10-GMAAIA i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env
/usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X aalib alsa apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl directfb
dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd fam flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimp-print
gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit libg++ libwww mad
maildir mikmod mmx motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nsplugin nvidia offensive ogg
oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png python quicktime readline samba
sdl spell sqlite sse sse2 ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts
usb vorbis xine xinerama xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Chad Granum 2005-09-20 08:48:17 UTC]

correction:

Original:
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.install latest vmware
2.create guest os, or use old one
3.try power-on of guest os.

Corrected:
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.install latest vmware 4.5.2
2.create guest os, or use old one
3.try power-on of guest os.

[Comment 2 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-09-20 08:49:14 UTC]

already fixed in cvs... emerge sync and remerge vmware...