License locations problems Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge vmware-workstation 2. vmware (not r00t) 3. Actual Results: VMware Workstation Error: Unable to open the /usr/lib/vmware/licenses/site license directory: No such file or directory Unable to open the /usr/lib/vmware/licenses/user license directory: No such file or directory Unable to find a license to run VMware Workstation. Expected Results: starting Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r8, 2.4.20-gentoo-r8) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r8 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 1.80GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.11 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss avi foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png truetype xmms xv zlib directfb gdbm berkdb slang readline sdl gpm pam ssl perl python imlib qt motif X apm acl acpi alsa cdr crypt curl dvb dvd encode ethereal flash sse usb mmx opengl xface xinerama fbcon pcmcia spell samba xml xml2 gtk gtk2 -3dfx -debug -emacs -esd -3dnow -aalib -apache2 -arts -canna -cjk -cups -freetds -gtkhtml -imap -ipv6 -java -junit -kde -ldap -lirc -matrox -oci8 -odbc -pda -postgres -ruby -snmp -socks5 -tetex -ppc -sparc -alpha -mips -hppa -arm -voodoo3 -svga -oggvorbis -gnome -quicktime -tcpd" how to fix: mkdir /usr/lib/vmware ln -s /opt/vmware/lib/licenses/ /usr/lib/vmware/
Could you post the exact error? I don't have those symlinks and have no problems at all. I *did* follow the instructions from VMWare themselves and put my license file in my .vmware directory. What's the contents of your ~/.vmware?
Strange... now all work perfectly. Maybe when started vmware-config.pl, all needed config was coped to needed place??
