The application doesn't start. This is the log from /tmp/vmware-<user>/ui-<pid>.log: Oct 30 11:44:32.147: vmui| Log for VMware Workstation pid=16390 version=6.5.3 build=build-185404 option=Release Oct 30 11:44:32.147: vmui| Host codepage=UTF-8 encoding=UTF-8 Oct 30 11:44:32.158: vmui| LOCALE en_US.UTF-8 -> NULL Oct 30 11:44:32.176: vmui| Using log file /tmp/vmware-toor/ui-16390.log Oct 30 11:44:32.177: vmui| HAL05LoadHALLibraries: dlopened libhal.so.1. Oct 30 11:44:32.177: vmui| HAL05LoadHalLibraries: dlopened libdbus-1.so.3. Oct 30 11:44:32.177: vmui| HAL05LoadGlibLibrary: dlopened libdbus-glib-1.so.2. Oct 30 11:44:32.191: vmui| Unable to classify bus of disk: /dev/sda (/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_ST9200420AS_5SH094TA). Using SCSI. Oct 30 11:44:32.194: vmui| Unable to classify bus of cdrom: /dev/hda (/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_MATSHITA_DVD___RW_UJ_875S_fG04A9D2). Using SCSI. Oct 30 11:44:32.313: vmui| HAL05Init: HAL05 Initialized successfully. Oct 30 11:44:32.406: vmui| UUID: Unable to open /dev/mem: Operation not permitted Oct 30 11:44:32.406: vmui| UUID: Valid gethostid routine. Value = A0200. Oct 30 11:44:32.415: vmui| HostDeviceInfo_FindHostParallelPorts: /proc/sys/dev/parport could not be explored. Unable to enumerate host parallel ports. Oct 30 11:44:32.421: vmui| SMBIOS: can't open /dev/mem: Generic error Oct 30 11:44:32.421: vmui| VmhsHostInfoPopulateSystem: Could not get information from smbios to populate VMDB. Oct 30 11:44:32.421: vmui| UUID: Unable to open /dev/mem: Operation not permitted Oct 30 11:44:32.421: vmui| HOSTINFO: Seeing Intel CPU, numCoresPerCPU 2 numThreadsPerCore 1. Oct 30 11:44:32.421: vmui| HOSTINFO: This machine has 1 physical CPUS, 2 total cores, and 2 logical CPUs. Oct 30 11:44:32.487: vmui| Using system libcrypto, version 9080BF Oct 30 11:44:32.507: vmui| Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/share/pixmaps/upgrade-hw.png' Oct 30 11:44:32.533: vmui| Unable to load icon lan-segment: Unrecognized image file format (code 3) Oct 30 11:44:32.533: vmui| Caught signal 11 -- pid 16390 Oct 30 11:44:32.533: vmui| SIGNAL: eip 0x7f68e72ac700 esp 0x7fff4f8f3288 ebp 0x3 Oct 30 11:44:32.533: vmui| SIGNAL: eax 0xa1 ebx 0x28dad80 ecx 0x13c40 edx 0x28dacf0 esi 0x0 edi 0x0 Oct 30 11:44:32.533: vmui| SIGNAL: stack 7FFF4F8F3288 : 0xe4427df4 0x00007f68 0x00000000 0x00000000 Oct 30 11:44:32.533: vmui| SIGNAL: stack 7FFF4F8F3298 : 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000003 0x00000000 Oct 30 11:44:32.533: vmui| SIGNAL: stack 7FFF4F8F32A8 : 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x028e31f0 0x00000000 Oct 30 11:44:32.533: vmui| SIGNAL: stack 7FFF4F8F32B8 : 0x4f8f3310 0x00007fff 0x00000000 0x00000000 Oct 30 11:44:32.533: vmui| SIGNAL: stack 7FFF4F8F32C8 : 0x028dad60 0x00000000 0x00000010 0x00000000 Oct 30 11:44:32.533: vmui| SIGNAL: stack 7FFF4F8F32D8 : 0x00000010 0x00000000 0x4f8f3500 0x00007fff Oct 30 11:44:32.533: vmui| SIGNAL: stack 7FFF4F8F32E8 : 0xe455f1bf 0x00007f68 0x4f8f3490 0x00000010 Oct 30 11:44:32.533: vmui| SIGNAL: stack 7FFF4F8F32F8 : 0x4f8f3360 0x00007fff 0xe44274c0 0x00007f68 Oct 30 11:44:32.533: vmui| Backtrace: Oct 30 11:44:32.533: vmui| Backtrace[0] 00007fff4f8f2cc0 rip=00007f68e4d007cc rbx=0000000000000000 rbp=00007f68e4d00ab0 r12=000000000000000b r13=000000000000000b r14=00000000000003e8 r15=00000000021bfd40 Oct 30 11:44:32.533: vmui| Backtrace[1] 00007fff4f8f2ce0 rip=00007f68e4dd4042 rbx=0000000000000080 rbp=00007fff4f8f2e40 r12=000000000000000b r13=000000000000000b r14=00000000000003e8 r15=00000000021bfd40 Oct 30 11:44:32.533: vmui| Backtrace[2] 00007fff4f8f2e40 rip=00007f68e9ea20b0 rbx=00000000028dad80 rbp=0000000000000003 r12=00007fff4f8f3400 r13=00007f68e49e2dc0 r14=0000000000000000 r15=00000000021bfd40 Oct 30 11:44:32.533: vmui| Backtrace[3] 00007fff4f8f3288 rip=00007f68e72ac700 rbx=00000000028dad80 rbp=0000000000000003 r12=00007fff4f8f3400 r13=00007f68e49e2dc0 r14=0000000000000000 r15=00000000021bfd40 Oct 30 11:44:32.534: vmui| Backtrace[4] 00007fff4f8f3290 rip=00007f68e4427df4 rbx=00000000028dad80 rbp=0000000000000003 r12=00007fff4f8f3400 r13=00007f68e49e2dc0 r14=0000000000000000 r15=00000000021bfd40 Oct 30 11:44:32.534: vmui| Backtrace[5] 00007fff4f8f3490 rip=00007f68e4426ece rbx=00007fff4f8f34b0 rbp=00007f68e49e2dc0 r12=00000000028e3210 r13=00007f68e49e2e00 r14=00007fff4f8f35d0 r15=0000000000000010 Oct 30 11:44:32.534: vmui| Backtrace[6] 00007fff4f8f3570 rip=00007f68e442725a rbx=00007fff4f8f35d0 rbp=00007fff4f8f35d0 r12=00007f68e49e2dc0 r13=00007f68e49e2de8 r14=00007fff4f8f35c0 r15=0000000000000001 Oct 30 11:44:32.534: vmui| Backtrace[7] 00007fff4f8f35a0 rip=00007f68e44272f4 rbx=00007f68e49e2dc0 rbp=00007fff4f8f35d0 r12=0000000000000001 r13=00007f68e49e2de8 r14=00007fff4f8f35c0 r15=0000000000000001 Oct 30 11:44:32.534: vmui| Backtrace[8] 00007fff4f8f3660 rip=00007f68e445f77c rbx=0000000000000000 rbp=00007f68e49e6aec r12=0000000000000001 r13=0000000000000001 r14=00007fff4f8f3790 r15=00007fff4f8f36b0 Oct 30 11:44:32.534: vmui| Backtrace[9] 00007fff4f8f3830 rip=000000000048353c rbx=00000000027b2060 rbp=00007fff4f8f3c50 r12=00007fff4f8f39d0 r13=00007fff4f8f3c90 r14=00007fff4f8f3c58 r15=00007fff4f8f3e70 Oct 30 11:44:32.534: vmui| Backtrace[10] 00007fff4f8f3b40 rip=000000000048433a rbx=00007fff4f8f3c50 rbp=00000000021bfd80 r12=00000000021bfd98 r13=00007fff4f8f3d80 r14=00007fff4f8f3da0 r15=00007fff4f8f3e70 Oct 30 11:44:32.534: vmui| Backtrace[11] 00007fff4f8f3c40 rip=0000000000477958 rbx=0000000000000000 rbp=0000000000000001 r12=000000000211bf80 r13=00007fff4f8f3c50 r14=0000000000000000 r15=0000000000000000 Oct 30 11:44:32.534: vmui| Backtrace[12] 00007fff4f8f3f40 rip=00007f68e2f15a3d rbx=0000000000000000 rbp=0000000000000000 r12=00000000004777b0 r13=00007fff4f8f4010 r14=0000000000000000 r15=0000000000000000 Oct 30 11:44:32.534: vmui| Backtrace[13] 00007fff4f8f4000 rip=00000000004777da rbx=0000000000000000 rbp=0000000000000000 r12=00000000004777b0 r13=00007fff4f8f4010 r14=0000000000000000 r15=0000000000000000 Oct 30 11:44:32.534: vmui| SymBacktrace[0] 00007fff4f8f2cc0 rip=00007f68e4d007cc in function Util_BacktraceWithFunc in object /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/lib/libvmwarebase.so.0/libvmwarebase.so.0 loaded at 00007f68e49e8000 Oct 30 11:44:32.534: vmui| SymBacktrace[1] 00007fff4f8f2ce0 rip=00007f68e4dd4042 in function (null) in object /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/lib/libvmwarebase.so.0/libvmwarebase.so.0 loaded at 00007f68e49e8000 Oct 30 11:44:32.534: vmui| SymBacktrace[2] 00007fff4f8f2e40 rip=00007f68e9ea20b0 in function (null) in object /lib/libpthread.so.0 loaded at 00007f68e9e93000 Oct 30 11:44:32.534: vmui| SymBacktrace[3] 00007fff4f8f3288 rip=00007f68e72ac700 in function _ZNK3Gdk6Pixbuf9get_widthEv in object /usr/lib/libgdkmm-2.4.so.1 loaded at 00007f68e7279000 Oct 30 11:44:32.534: vmui| SymBacktrace[4] 00007fff4f8f3290 rip=00007f68e4427df4 in function _ZNK3lui6pixbuf13IconThemeIcon11BuildScaledEmm in object /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/lib/libvmwareui.so.0/libvmwareui.so.0 loaded at 00007f68e3a5f000 Oct 30 11:44:32.534: vmui| SymBacktrace[5] 00007fff4f8f3490 rip=00007f68e4426ece in function _ZNK3lui6pixbuf4Base3GetEmm in object /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/lib/libvmwareui.so.0/libvmwareui.so.0 loaded at 00007f68e3a5f000 Oct 30 11:44:32.535: vmui| SymBacktrace[6] 00007fff4f8f3570 rip=00007f68e442725a in function _ZNK3lui6pixbuf4Base3GetEN3Gtk8IconSizeE in object /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/lib/libvmwareui.so.0/libvmwareui.so.0 loaded at 00007f68e3a5f000 Oct 30 11:44:32.535: vmui| SymBacktrace[7] 00007fff4f8f35a0 rip=00007f68e44272f4 in function _ZNK3lui6pixbuf4Base10SetStockIdERKN4Glib7ustringEN3Gtk8IconSizeEb in object /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/lib/libvmwareui.so.0/libvmwareui.so.0 loaded at 00007f68e3a5f000 Oct 30 11:44:32.535: vmui| SymBacktrace[8] 00007fff4f8f3660 rip=00007f68e445f77c in function _ZN3lui5Utils18RegisterStockIconsEv in object /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/lib/libvmwareui.so.0/libvmwareui.so.0 loaded at 00007f68e3a5f000 Oct 30 11:44:32.535: vmui| SymBacktrace[9] 00007fff4f8f3830 rip=000000000048353c in function (null) in object /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/bin/vmware loaded at 0000000000400000 Oct 30 11:44:32.535: vmui| SymBacktrace[10] 00007fff4f8f3b40 rip=000000000048433a in function (null) in object /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/bin/vmware loaded at 0000000000400000 Oct 30 11:44:32.535: vmui| SymBacktrace[11] 00007fff4f8f3c40 rip=0000000000477958 in function _ZN3lui13ManageableDlgD0Ev in object /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/bin/vmware loaded at 0000000000400000 Oct 30 11:44:32.535: vmui| SymBacktrace[12] 00007fff4f8f3f40 rip=00007f68e2f15a3d in function __libc_start_main in object /lib/libc.so.6 loaded at 00007f68e2ef7000 Oct 30 11:44:32.535: vmui| SymBacktrace[13] 00007fff4f8f4000 rip=00000000004777da in function _ZN3cui6wizard5CloneD0Ev in object /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/bin/vmware loaded at 0000000000400000 Oct 30 11:44:32.537: vmui| Your core dump size limit is 0 kb. Oct 30 11:44:32.537: vmui| Attempting to dump core ... Reproducible: Always toor@host11 ~ $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.7.1 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.2, glibc-2.10.1-r0, 2.6.31-tuxonice-091003 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.31-tuxonice-091003-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T7700_@_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:45:02 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p35 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.9-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.6, 2.5.4-r3, 2.6.3, 3.1.1-r1 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4-r3 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.5.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2, 1.11 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe -ggdb" 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/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe -ggdb" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests ccache collision-protect distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict suidctl unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" INSTALL_MASK="TODO.bz2 ChangeLog.bz2 AUTHORS.bz2 TODO.gz ChangeLog.gz AUTHORS.gz" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="it it_IT en en_GB en_UK en_US" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" 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.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi ada alsa amd64 bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus doc dri dts dvd dvdr eds emboss encode evo examples fam firefox flac fortran gdbm gif git gpm gstreamer gtk hal htmlhandbook hvm iconv inotify ipv6 isdnlog java java6 jpeg jpeg2k kde laptop latex libnotify lm_sensors mad mikmod mmap mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mplayer mudflap multilib mysql mysqli ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia odbc ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png posix postgres ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session sharedmem sockets spell spl sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs syslog sysvipc tcpd threads thunar tiff truetype unicode usb vim-syntax vnc vorbis wifi x264 xattr xcb xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid xvmc 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 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 doc env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info innodb log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling ssl status threads unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" APACHE2_MPMS="worker" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="it it_IT en en_GB en_UK en_US" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
(In reply to comment #0) > Oct 30 11:44:32.507: vmui| Couldn't recognize the image file format for file > '/opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/share/pixmaps/upgrade-hw.png' Please see: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290006#c6 Have you done xcb migration?
(In reply to comment #1) > (In reply to comment #0) > > > Oct 30 11:44:32.507: vmui| Couldn't recognize the image file format for file > > '/opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/share/pixmaps/upgrade-hw.png' > > Please see: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290006#c6 > > Have you done xcb migration? > The workaround "export VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=force" works. What is the "xcb migration"?
(In reply to comment #2) > The workaround "export VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=force" works. > What is the "xcb migration"? > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/libxcb-1.4-upgrade-guide.xml
