After install app-emulation/vmware-workstation 6.5.5.* if I attempt to run many of the command line utilities such as vmware-mount, they will exit immidiately with an error like this: -------- SSLLoadSharedLibrary: Failed to load library libcrypto.so.0.9.8:/opt/vmware/workstation/bin/libdir/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8/libcrypto.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Core dump limit is 0 KB. Child process 7573 failed to dump core (status 0x6). VMware Workstation Error: VMware Workstation unrecoverable error: (app) SSLLoadSharedLibrary: Failed to load library libcrypto.so.0.9.8:/opt/vmware/workstation/bin/libdir/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8/libcrypto.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Please request support. To collect data to submit to VMware support, select Help > About and click "Collect Support Data". You can also run the "vm-support" script in the Workstation folder directly. We will respond on the basis of your support entitlement. Press "Enter" to continue... -------- It seems that it is looking for the libraries in the wrong location. There is a fix which seems to work though, simply adding the following symlink should fix the issue: ln -s /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware /opt/vmware/workstation/bin/libdir Of course it would be nice if this were done automatically by the ebuild :-). Reproducible: Always
workstation 6 was removed from the tree. bug bug 385727.
