I did a fresh install of vmware-server on a server without X. vmware fails with: /opt/vmware/server/lib/bin/vmware: error while loading shared libraries: libXi.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Emerge of libXi resolve the failure. emerge --info: Portage 2.1.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/server, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17.6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17.6 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 Last Sync: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:50:01 +0000 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/bind /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control /var/vpopmail/domains /var/vpopmail/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="de_DE@euro" LC_ALL="de_DE@euro" LINGUAS="de" 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.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 apache2 bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cli crypt dlloader dri elibc_glibc expat fortran gdbm input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse isdnlog kernel_linux libg++ linguas_de lm_sensors mailwrapper mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly pam pcre perl pic ppds pppd python readline reflection samba session spl ssl tcpd test threads truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev userland_GNU video_cards_apm video_cards_ark video_cards_ati video_cards_chips video_cards_cirrus video_cards_cyrix video_cards_dummy video_cards_fbdev video_cards_glint video_cards_i128 video_cards_i740 video_cards_i810 video_cards_imstt video_cards_mga video_cards_neomagic video_cards_nsc video_cards_nv video_cards_rendition video_cards_s3 video_cards_s3virge video_cards_savage video_cards_siliconmotion video_cards_sis video_cards_sisusb video_cards_tdfx video_cards_tga video_cards_trident video_cards_tseng video_cards_v4l video_cards_vesa video_cards_vga video_cards_via video_cards_vmware video_cards_voodoo xml xorg zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Ok, thanks for the heads up. I'll check out the dependencies and add it in. Just to help me out, could you please send me the exact command that you ran and the output you got from it. I'm assuming it's just something like "/etc/init.d/vmware start", but I'd like to make sure. Thanks very much... 5:)
No, '/etc/init.d/vmware start' works. When I want to open the "build in" console with 'vmware' I get: /opt/vmware/server/lib/bin/vmware: error while loading shared libraries: libXi.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Ok, that's expected behaviour. There were several requests to allow for vmware-server to be installed on a headless X server. I am intending in the future to remove the "built-in" console, since there is a perfectly good actual console in a separate build that pulls in all the extra X requirements, and can co-incide with a standard server build without problem. That's also there reason there is no symlink to the vmware binary. So, whilst I don't like saying it, I'm afraid I'm going to mark this as WONTFIX, and state that the recommended method of connecting to vmware-server on a gentoo installation is to use the separate vmware-server-console package. Sorry... 5:(
