Bug 257934 – app-emulation/vmware-workstation-6.5.1.126.130 does not install itself in a usable fashion.

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jeremy Miller 2009-02-06 20:24:37 UTC]

app-emulation/vmware-workstation-6.5.1.126.130 successfully installs, however when the application is actually launched, it fails to find needed files.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge vmware-workstation
2.vmware&

Actual Results:  
jeremy@purple ~ $ vmware 
/usr/bin/vmware: line 177: /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/lib/wrapper-gtk24.sh: No such file or directory 
/usr/bin/vmware: line 177: exec: /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/lib/wrapper-gtk24.sh: cannot execute: No such file or directory

Expected Results:  
jeremy@purple ~ $ vmware

I notice that it's looking for: /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/lib/wrapper-gtk24.sh
I find it odd that the path would be /lib/lib.

but

jeremy@purple ~ $ ls /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/ 
cups  libvixAllProducts.so  vmware  vmware-vix 
jeremy@purple ~ $ ls /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware 
bin           floppies  installer  licenses   scripts          vnckeymap 
config        help      isoimages  messages   setup            xkeymap 
configurator  icu       lib        modules    share 
eclipse-ivd   include   libconf    resources  tools-upgraders 
jeremy@purple ~ $ ls /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/lib|grep sh 
wrapper-gtk24.sh

And

jeremy@purple ~ $ cat /etc/vmware/config 
.encoding = "UTF-8" 
vix.libdir = "/opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware-vix" 
vmware.fullpath = "/opt/vmware/workstation/bin/vmware" 
NETWORKING = "yes" 
VMBLOCK_CONFED = "yes" 
gksu.rootMethod = "su" 
libdir = "/opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/" 
VMCI_CONFED = "yes" 
VSOCK_CONFED = "yes" 
initscriptdir = "/etc/init.d" 
authd.fullpath = "/opt/vmware/workstation/sbin/vmware-authd" 
bindir = "/opt/vmware/workstation/bin" 
product.buildNumber = "126130" 
product.version = "6.5.1" 
product.name = "VMware" 

I'm not sure where it's pulling this incorrect path

[Comment 1 Jeremy Miller 2009-02-06 20:27:28 UTC]

purple ~ # emerge --info
Portage 2.1.6.4 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.25-gentoo-r8 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.25-gentoo-r8-i686-AMD_Athlon-tm-_MP_2600+-with-glibc2.0
Timestamp of tree: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:10:01 +0000
distcc 3.0 i686-pc-linux-gnu [disabled]
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p39
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.6-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r9, 2.5.2-r7
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
dev-util/cmake:      2.4.8
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.27-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-mp -pipe"
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/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-mp -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="ccache distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
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="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac aalib accessibility acl alsa amarok apache2 arts berkdb bzip2 cairo cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt ctype cups dga directfb dri dv dvb dvd firefox flac fortran ftp fuse gdbm gif gpm gtk icecast iconv injection isdnlog java jpeg libcaca madwifi midi mmx mmxext mp3 mudflap musicbrainz mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia objc offensive ogg opengl openmp oss pam pcre perl png pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 readline reflection rtc samba server session slang smp speex spl sqlite sse ssl svg svga sysfs tcpd threads tiff unicode visualization vorbis win32codecs wma wmf x86 xorg xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" 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 auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd 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 dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 2 Mike Auty (RETIRED) 2009-02-06 20:31:16 UTC]

Jeremy, can you please confirm that you ran "emerge --config vmware-workstation" in between emerging and installing, as the note at the end of the ebuild asks you to?

[Comment 3 Jeremy Miller 2009-02-06 20:35:54 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Jeremy, can you please confirm that you ran "emerge --config
> vmware-workstation" in between emerging and installing, as the note at the end
> of the ebuild asks you to?
> 

Yes, I have.  I don't believe the two are related because the emerge --config vmware-workstation mainly sets up networking related settings.  Though just to be complete I reran it, to the same result.

[Comment 4 [e-mail] 2009-02-07 03:22:26 UTC]

Discussed the bug with O.P. in #gentoo -- I don't think the "vmware" he's running is /opt/vmware/workstation/bin/vmware, but some unknown /usr/bin/vmware. Running /opt/vmware/workstation/bin/vmware resolved the issue.