Bug 169358 – app-emulation/vmware-workstation-5.5.3.34685 doesn't start on amd64

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Denny Reeh 2007-03-04 20:07:09 UTC]

1. all packages emerged fine
2. /opt/vmware/workstation/bin/vmware-config.pl works
3. /etc/init.d/vmware restart works
4. user is in vmware group

but start of vmware breaks with error:

denny@wonder ~ $ vmware
/opt/vmware/workstation/lib/lib/wrapper-gtk24.sh: line 142: /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/bin/vmware: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
/opt/vmware/workstation/lib/lib/wrapper-gtk24.sh: line 142: /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/bin/vmware: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden

what goes wrong?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start vmware as user




wonder linux # emerge --info
Portage 2.1.2-r9 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.1/vanilla, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.20-gentoo x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.20-gentoo x86_64 AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-56
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9
Timestamp of tree: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 12:00:01 +0000
app-admin/eselect-compiler: 2.0.0_rc2-r1
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
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:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ "
LANG="de_DE"
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/portage/local/myebuilds"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X alsa amd64 apache2 arts berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd fam firefox fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal howl iconv imagemagick ipv6 isdnlog jpeg ldap libg++ mad midi mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl oss pam pcre perl png ppds pppd python quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode userlocales vorbis xml xorg xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2007-03-05 20:53:54 UTC]

What does:

LC_ALL=C vmware

give as output?  (I don't read German)

[Comment 2 Denny Reeh 2007-03-08 17:27:35 UTC]

no problem left, just a bad configured system.