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Bug 1677 - VMware-wizard problem
Summary: VMware-wizard problem
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: Low minor (vote)
Assignee: Sandy McArthur
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Depends on: 1686
Blocks:
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Reported: 2002-04-11 06:11 UTC by Danny
Modified: 2003-02-04 19:42 UTC (History)
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Description Danny 2002-04-11 06:11:03 UTC
vmware builds and installs correctly BUT vmware-wizard looks for tcl 8.0 and
gentoo installs tcl 8.3.3 so vmware-wizard errors with
static@LNX static $ /opt/vmware/bin/vmware-wizard 
Application initialization failed: Can't find a usable init.tcl in the following
directories: 
    /usr/local/src/scriptics/TclPro1.2/lib/tcl8.0 /opt/vmware/lib/tcl8.0
/opt/lib/tcl8.0 /opt/vmware/library /opt/library /opt/tcl8.0/library
/tcl8.0/library



This probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly.
Comment 1 Sandy McArthur 2002-04-11 19:37:14 UTC
I have dev-lang/tcl-8.3.3 installed and vmware-wizard works for me. Also as best
as I can tell vmware-wizard doens't use tcl at all:

# ldd /opt/vmware/bin/vmware-wizard
libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x4002d000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x400f5000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x400f8000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4011a000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
Comment 2 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-04-12 23:28:58 UTC
William, 

I also had this problem.  Maybe try doing a fresh install and see what happens?
Comment 3 Sandy McArthur 2002-04-13 01:24:45 UTC
Hrm, I think I was using the newest vmware when I wrote comment 1. I'll go back
a version and check it out.
Comment 4 Sandy McArthur 2002-04-13 02:17:46 UTC
Ok, I'll admit that wmare-wizard use tcl. If you run `strings vmware-wizard`
you'll see some tcl stuff. I'll fix the relevant DEPEND lines.

That said, I have the problem of "it works for me" which makes it real hard to
fix your problem, any chance you can be descriptive about when you ran
vmware-wizard? Was it before you ran vmware-config? Were the kernel modules
loaded? Anything else that may be relevent?
Comment 5 Danny 2002-04-13 02:26:09 UTC
I ran vmware config allready and the modules were all loaded the thing is is
that vmware-config is lookin for tcl 8.0 and gentoo has 8.3.3 "I think thats the
problem" vmware itself runs fine just the wizard does not because of the tcl issue
Comment 6 Danny 2002-04-13 02:29:39 UTC
also if you talk on op my nick is [static] if you want to talk more about it
Comment 7 Sandy McArthur 2002-04-13 03:27:40 UTC
After talking to Danny on IRC and banging my head on the desk alot Danny said
the problem went away after he upgraded to VMware 3.1 . So I'm going hold off on
worrying anymore about this until after the 3.1 package is made live and ppl
have problems with it. See bug #1686 if you can't wait for the final 3.1 ebuild.
Comment 8 Sandy McArthur 2002-04-13 03:29:51 UTC
Sorry, I need sleep, I got the Bug depends on and bug blocks confused.