After finally getting vmware-modules to compile on 2.6.25 (thanks, Mike), vmware-workstation won't run. The networking starts fine, but when I try to start the program, I get an hourglass for about thirty seconds, and then nothing. I eventually found this in /tmp/vmware-user/ui-28576.log Oct 04 13:42:53: vmui| Log for VMware Workstation pid=28576 version=5.5.7 build=build-91707 option=Release Oct 04 13:42:53: vmui| Using log file /tmp/vmware-user/ui-28576.log Oct 04 13:42:53: vmui| HAL05LoadHALLibraries: dlopened libhal.so.1. Oct 04 13:42:53: vmui| HAL05LoadHalLibraries: dlopened libdbus-1.so.3. Oct 04 13:42:53: vmui| HAL05LoadGlibLibrary: dlopened libdbus-glib-1.so.2. Oct 04 13:42:53: vmui| HAL05Init: HAL context initialization failed. Oct 04 13:42:53: vmui| Caught signal 6 -- pid 28576 Oct 04 13:42:53: vmui| SIGNAL: eip 0xb7fc6424 esp 0xbfae2f7c ebp 0xb70549dd Oct 04 13:42:53: vmui| SIGNAL: eax 0x0 ebx 0x6fa0 ecx 0x6fa0 edx 0x6 esi 0xbfae3030 edi 0xb71aeff4 Oct 04 13:42:53: vmui| SIGNAL: stack 0xbfae2f7c : 0xb70549dd 0x00000006 0x00006fa0 0xb7096717 Oct 04 13:42:53: vmui| SIGNAL: stack 0xbfae2f8c : 0xb71aeff4 0xb705e8d0 0xb7097d8e 0x00000006 Oct 04 13:42:53: vmui| SIGNAL: stack 0xbfae2f9c : 0xbfae3030 0x00000000 0x0a48a450 0x00000001 Oct 04 13:42:53: vmui| SIGNAL: stack 0xbfae2fac : 0x00000000 0x00000001 0xb6ead3b0 0xbfae3070 Oct 04 13:42:53: vmui| SIGNAL: stack 0xbfae2fbc : 0xbfae303c 0x0000002b 0x0a48a450 0x00000001 Oct 04 13:42:53: vmui| SIGNAL: stack 0xbfae2fcc : 0x00000000 0x00000001 0xbfae3070 0x0a48a118 Oct 04 13:42:53: vmui| SIGNAL: stack 0xbfae2fdc : 0xbfae305c 0x00000001 0x0000008e 0xb71af580 Oct 04 13:42:53: vmui| SIGNAL: stack 0xbfae2fec : 0x00000040 0xb6edd88c 0xbfae3090 0x0a48a118 Oct 04 13:42:53: vmui| Backtrace: Oct 04 13:42:53: vmui| Backtrace[0] 0xbfae2ac8 eip 0x821d9d0 Oct 04 13:42:53: vmui| Backtrace[1] 0xbfae2c28 eip 0x846abc3 Oct 04 13:42:53: vmui| Backtrace[2] 0xbfae2c98 eip 0x846ae3a Oct 04 13:42:53: vmui| Backtrace[3] 0xb70549dd eip 0xb7fc6400 Oct 04 13:42:53: vmui| Your core dump size limit is 0 kb. Oct 04 13:42:53: vmui| Attempting to dump core ... Reproducible: Always $ emerge -p --info Portage 2.1.4.4 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz Timestamp of tree: Sat, 04 Oct 2008 12:30:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.61-r2 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mfpmath=sse" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mfpmath=sse" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac aalib acpi alsa arts audiofile berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo caps cdparanoia cdr cjk cpudetection cracklib crypt css cups dbus dga directfb dri dvd dvdr dvdread encode exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg flac fortran gcj ggi gif glibc-omitfp gmp gphoto2 gpm gstreamer hal iconv idea imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 javascript jbig joystick jpeg kde lcms libcaca libwww live lm_sensors mad matroska mbox memlimit midi mmx mmxext mng mp3 mpeg mudflap mysql nas ncurses network nls no-old-linux nodrm nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp oscar pcre pdf perl png qt3 quicktime readline real rtc samba scanner sdl sensord silc smtp sndfile speex spell sse sse2 ssl stream svg sysfs tcpd theora threads threadsafe tiff timidity truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales utf8 vcd vorbis wideband win32codecs x86 xinerama xml xorg xv xvid yahoo zlib zrtp" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="ptp2" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LINGUAS="en ru" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
It looks like this might have been related to -mfpmath=sse (see bug 223449). Please re-sync your portage tree (after a couple of hours, the updates only just went in), then try rebuilding vmware-modules. If you're still encountering these problems, do let me know and reopen this bug...
