In the last couple of days there have been a bunch of updates - one of them has created a problem starting vmware as a regular use. Possibilities are the libpng update, the freetype locale patch or something to do with kde 4.10.2 Reproducible: Always
1) Please post your `emerge --info =app-emulation/vmware-workstation-9.0.2.1031769' output in a comment. 2) Please post any output from the command you used to run the program.
emerge --info =app-emulation/vmware-workstation-9.0.2.1031769 Portage 2.2.0_alpha171 (default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop, gcc-4.7.2, glibc-2.16.0, 3.8.6-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.8.6-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-3960X_CPU_@_3.30GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 65923432 total, 60909704 free KiB Swap: 2096124 total, 2096124 free Timestamp of tree: Sun, 07 Apr 2013 16:00:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.1 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p45 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.12-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.7.3-r3, 3.2.3-r2 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.10.2-r1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.11.8 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.6.3-r1, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.6, 1.13.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.23.1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.7.2-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r4 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.8 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.16.0 Repositories: gentoo miscellaneous Installed sets: @system ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/polkit-1/actions" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /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" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--keep-going --quiet-build=n" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs buildpkg config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch xattr" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j24 -l30" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/miscellaneous" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X a52 aac aalib accessibility acl acpi aften alsa amd64 animate archive ares artworkextra audio audiofile avahi bash-completion beep berkdb bidi bittorrent bluetooth bookmarks branding bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cdio cdr chm cli clucene consolekit corefonts cpudetection cracklib crypt css cups curl cxx dbus declarative deprecated designer-plugin device-mapper dga directfb discouraged doc dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdnav dvdr ebook eds elisp emacs emboss emerald encode esd eselect examples exif expat extra-tools extras fam fat fax fbcon fbcondecor ffmpeg firefox flac flash fltk fontconfig foomaticdb fortran ftp fts3 fuse g3dvl gcj gd gdbm gdu ggi gif gimp glep glib gnome gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk handbook hddtemp hfs hpijs html httpd hwdb hyperestraier iconv idn imagemagick imlib inkjar inotify ipv6 jack jadetex java jfs joystick jpeg jpeg2k kde kdrive kerberos konqueror lame lcms ldap libcaca libnotify libsamplerate live lm_sensors mad mail matroska md5sum mdnsresponder-compat mikmod mime mjpeg mmx mmxext mng modules mono mozilla mp3 mp4 mpeg mplayer mudflap multilib musepack musicbrainz mysql nas nautilus ncurses networking new-login nls npp nptl nsplugin ntfs objc odbc offensive ogg openal openexr opengl openmp osdmenu pam pango pcre pdf perl plasma png policykit postgres ppds ps pulseaudio python qt3support qt4 quicktime raptor rar rdesktop readline realmedia reflection regex reiser4 reiserfs reports samba sametime scanner script sdl secure-delete semantic-desktop servletapi session sip skins slang slp smbclient smp sndfile snmp sound speech speex spell sqlite sse sse2 ssl startup-notification static-ppds stream subversion svg swat sysfs syslog tcpd templates themes theora threads thumbnail tidy tiff timidity tk tools truetype udev udisks unicode unsupported upower usb utils v4l2 vala vcd vdpau vdr video vlm vmware_guest_linux vorbis wav wavpack weather webkit wmf wxwidgets x264 xattr xcb xcomposite xfs xine xml xorg xpm xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc zeroconf zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci 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="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd 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 cgi cgid 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" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev joystick keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 ruby19" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev nvidia vesa" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" USE_PYTHON="2.7 3.2" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= app-emulation/vmware-workstation-9.0.2.1031769 was built with the following: USE="cups doc (multilib) ovftool server vix vmware-tools" ABI_X86="64" here is what happens if I start vmware-workstation from a termninal as regular user billydv@Linux1 ~ $ /opt/vmware/bin/vmware Aborted billydv@Linux1 ~ $ here is what happens if I do the same as root (it does start) Linux1 billydv # /opt/vmware/bin/vmware (gconftool-2:4992): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. Failed to get value for `/desktop/gnome/interface/menus_have_tearoff': No D-BUS daemon running Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 9: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.
Just wanted to say that neither downgrading libpng nor deleting the locale patch for freetype made any difference. I will try a world rebuild tonight and see if that changes anything.
Have the same issue. Here's emerge --info =app-emulation/vmware-workstation-9.0.2.1031769: Portage 2.1.11.60 (default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/gnome, gcc-4.7.2, glibc-2.17, 3.8.6-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.8.6-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7_CPU_950_@_3.07GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 12304492 total, 8915284 free KiB Swap: 16787888 total, 16787888 free Timestamp of tree: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 04:15:02 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.1 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p45 dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0::java-overlay dev-lang/python: 2.7.3-r3, 3.2.3-r2 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.10.2-r1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.11.8 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6-r1, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.6, 1.13.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.23.1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.6.3, 4.7.2-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r4 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.8 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.17 Repositories: gentoo vmware megacoffee java-overlay mrpdaemon systemd multimedia steam-overlay infinality Mark-s-local-portage-overlay ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/maven-bin-3.0/conf" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--autounmask=n" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.usu.edu/mirrors/gentoo/ http://gentoo.llarian.net/ http://gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com/linux/gentoo/ http://gentoo.gossamerhost.com http://gentoo.mirrors.hoobly.com/" LANG="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j9" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/vmware /var/lib/layman/megacoffee /var/lib/layman/java-overlay /var/lib/layman/mrpdaemon /var/lib/layman/systemd /var/lib/layman/multimedia /var/lib/layman/steam /var/lib/layman/infinality /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 artworkextra avahi bash-completion berkdb bluray branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cleartype cli clutter colord consolekit cracklib crypt cscope cups cxx dbus devhelp device-mapper dri dts dv dvd dvdr eds emboss encode evo exif faac fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran fuse gdbm gdu geoloc gif glade glitz gnome gnome-keyring gnome-online-accounts gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtk3 hostip iconv id3tag ipv6 jabber jpeg kdrive lame lcms libnotify libsecret mad map mmx mmxext mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg msn mudflap multilib nautilus ncurses networkmanager nls nptl ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf png policykit ppds pulseaudio python qt3support qt4 quicktime readline rtmp sdl session socialweb spell sse sse2 sse3 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg systemd tcpd theora threads tiff tracker truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb v4l v4l2 vala vdpau vim-syntax vorbis vpx wav wxwidgets x264 xcb xcomposite xml xv xvid xvmc zlib" ABI_X86="32 64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci 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="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd 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 cgi cgid 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 access_compat" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="*" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="en" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 ruby19" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= app-emulation/vmware-workstation-9.0.2.1031769 was built with the following: USE="cups (multilib) vix vmware-tools -doc -ovftool -server" ABI_X86="64"
One more example: # emerge --info app-emulation/vmware-workstation Portage 2.1.11.55 (default/linux/amd64/13.0, gcc-4.7.2, glibc-2.15-r3, 3.8.6 x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.8.6-x86_64-Intel-R-_Xeon-R-_CPU_E31275_@_3.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.1 KiB Mem: 32842948 total, 29522564 free KiB Swap: 73400312 total, 73400312 free Timestamp of tree: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 09:45:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.22 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p37 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.12-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.7.3-r3, 3.2.3-r2 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.9 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.1-r1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.11.8 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6, 1.12.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.22-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.7.2-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r4 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.7 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.15-r3 Repositories: gentoo x-local-overlay ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA AdobeFlash-10.3 AdobeFlash-11.x skype-eula google-chrome" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/polkit-1/actions" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j8" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/local-overlay" SYNC="rsync://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl alsa amd64 avx berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cxx dbus dri dv dvb dvd encode ffmpeg fortran gdbm gpm iconv ipv6 jpeg mad mms mmx modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl ogg openmp pam pcre png readline semantic-desktop session sna sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssl ssse3 tcpd tiff unicode v4l vorbis xfce xinerama xv zlib" ABI_X86="64" 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="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd 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 cgi cgid 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" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" GRUB_PLATFORMS="coreboot multiboot pc efi-64" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="de" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 ruby19" SANE_BACKENDS="hp" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel nvidia" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= app-emulation/vmware-workstation-9.0.2.1031769 was built with the following: USE="cups doc (multilib) ovftool vmware-tools -server -vix" ABI_X86="64"
I ran vmware-workstation in XFCE. Since yesterday with updates mentioned by OP, it will neither start as user nor as root. What gets started always is: ##### pts/3 Sl 0:00 /opt/vmware/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-tray poweredOn None additional logs, error messages etc. to be found. Re-compiling (-e world) did not help. Re-building kernels did not help - neither 3.8.5 nor 3.8.6 . Compiling kdebase-meta in addition to kdebase-runtime-meta did not help: # equery list kde*meta [IP-] [ ] kde-base/kdebase-meta-4.10.2:4 [IP-] [ ] kde-base/kdebase-runtime-meta-4.10.2:4
I also tried a few things - I noticed that the OP was also using linux 3.8.6 so I tried booting old kernels, including 3.8.5, 3.8.4, 3.8.3 etc. no dice, the issue doesn't seem to be due to kernel. One of the recent upgrades was to icu (=> 51.1), which required libxml2 to be recompiled. I was wondering if that had any effect so I tried the following (none of which fixed the issue): - downgrade icu to 50.1.2 + revdep-rebuild - compile icu-51.1 + revdep-rebuild with gcc 4.6.3 - compile icu-50.1.2 + revdep-rebuild with gcc 4.6.3 So after all that, I still haven't figured out what is going on. An interesting observation is that, on a fresh boot, 'vmware' crashes without even showing a window on first launch attempt - the terminal log contains xml parsing errors. Subsequent launches of 'vmware' result in the window being shown and stuck at "Loading.." I haven't been able to figure out what it is that causes the change in behavior between first launch and subsequent launches, I tried clearing up the /tmp/vmware-<user> directory, killing all vmware-* processes, reloading all vmware* kernel modules to no avail.
(In reply to comment #2) > here is what happens if I do the same as root (it does start) > > > Linux1 billydv # /opt/vmware/bin/vmware > > (gconftool-2:4992): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS > daemon: In my XFCE environment, it even does not start as ROOT ! Only # ps fax | grep vmware ##### pts/3 Sl 0:00 /opt/vmware/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-tray poweredOn
Perhaps a hint: in vmware-ui-31398.log : | vmui| I120: NewComponentMgr: 9.0.2(1031769) | vmui| I120: CDS: Initializing a CDS updater client 1.0 for product unknown, version 9.0.2.1031769 (workspace /tmp/vmware-root) | vmui| I120: CDS error: Cannot locate VMIS, bootstrap file /etc/vmware-installer/bootstrap unavailable! | vmui| I120: CDS warning: Couldn't populate VMIS install cache. | vmui| I120: RefreshComponentListWithDefaults: CDS_UNKNOWN_PRODUCT_ERROR for product fusion | vmui| I120: RefreshComponentListWithDefaults: CDS_UNKNOWN_PRODUCT_ERROR for product fusion-antivirus-windows | vmui| I120: CDS error: No install keys defined for fusion-mas | vmui| I120: RefreshComponentListWithDefaults: CDS_UNKNOWN_PRODUCT_ERROR for product fusion-mas | vmui| I120: RefreshComponentListWithDefaults: CDS_UNKNOWN_PRODUCT_ERROR for product fusion-ovftool | vmui| I120: CDS error: Cannot locate VMIS, bootstrap file /etc/vmware-installer/bootstrap unavailable! | vmui| I120: CDS warning: Couldn't populate VMIS install cache. | vmui| W110: Caught signal 11 -- pid 31398 ... ... SIGNAL stack, Backtrace and SymBacktrace follow ... ... | vmui| W110: | vmui| W110+ The core dump limit is set to ZERO; no core dump should be expected ??? "product fusion" ??? # ll /etc/vmware-installer/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11K Apr 6 20:08 database -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 6 20:08 database.lck
here is the same ui log from ONE single try to start it
Created attachment 344874 [details] vmware-ui log
Downgrade to gtkmm-2.24.2.
(In reply to comment #12) > Downgrade to gtkmm-2.24.2. NOPE : not sufficient - at least not in my case: # equery list gtkmm [IP-] [ ] dev-cpp/gtkmm-2.24.2:2.4 that's exactly the current default which I have. Sorry.
Ok. I had the same issue as the original poster and it fixed it for me. I had emerged in 2.24.3 on 20130407 but decided to get on kernel 3.8.6 today and thus noticed the "aborted" issues after the reboot. Might want to use strace to debug more. That is how I found my issue. ie.: strace -f /opt/vmware/bin/vmware > vmware-debug.txt 2>&1 (In reply to comment #13) > (In reply to comment #12) > > Downgrade to gtkmm-2.24.2. > > NOPE : not sufficient - at least not in my case: > > # equery list gtkmm > [IP-] [ ] dev-cpp/gtkmm-2.24.2:2.4 > > that's exactly the current default which I have. > > Sorry.
Nope, that indeed is the problem, need to mask all versions after dev-cpp/gtkmm-2.24.2
Sorry these versions are okay =dev-cpp/gtkmm-2.24.2 =dev-cpp/gtkmm-3.6.0
Confirmed, downgrading dev-cpp/gtkmm-2.24.3 to 2.24.2 fixed the issue for me.
(In reply to comment #17) > Confirmed, downgrading dev-cpp/gtkmm-2.24.3 to 2.24.2 fixed the issue for me. Strange: .) fresh rebuild (-e world) .) # equery list dev-cpp/gtkmm [IP-] [ ] dev-cpp/gtkmm-2.24.2:2.4 .) old .vmware deleted .) fresh cold-boot .) start as user : --> vmware-ui-3794.log .) start as root : --> vmware-ui-4085.log BOTH: (extract) (see attachments) PREF Failed to load user preferences. HAL05LoadHALLibraries: Could not dlopen libhal.so.1. HAL04LoadHALLibraries: Could not dlopen libhal.so.0. CDS: Initializing a CDS updater client 1.0 for product unknown, version 9.0.2.1031769 (workspace /tmp/vmware-root) CDS error: Cannot locate VMIS, bootstrap file /etc/vmware-installer/bootstrap unavailable! CDS warning: Couldn't populate VMIS install cache. Caught signal 11 -- pid ####
Created attachment 344922 [details] start as user
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if I run (even as root) : strace -f /opt/vmware/bin/vmware > vmware-debug.txt 2>&1 this does _not_ finish by itself, I have to stop it with ^C. Around line 233178, you find the last "normal" open/close of open("/opt/vmware/lib/vmware/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/actions/vmware-component-download-inactive.png", O_RDONLY) = 24 Afterwards, only openat will follow : openat(AT_FDCWD, "/var/run/vmware", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC <unfinished ...>
Created attachment 344928 [details] debug - log ; started as root
Even after more than 5 min, again and again: openat(AT_FDCWD, "/var/run/vmware", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC <unfinished ...> <... recvfrom resumed> 0x7fe86731eac4, 4096, 0, 0, 0) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) <... openat resumed> ) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) which does not exist, indeed.
I had a similar problem with vmware-player - it was receiving sigsegv on any attempt to run it, no matter by what user. Downgrading gtkmm:2.4 to 2.24.2 helped here too.
$ uname -a Linux diego 3.8.7 #2 SMP Sat Apr 13 19:45:04 CEST 2013 x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31275 @ 3.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux Upgrading kernel to 3.8.7, strace now finishes - as root as well as user - aborting. In both cases, repeatably the last success is "inform the tray": [pid 5283] mknod("/tmp/vmware-manfred/vmware-tray-:0-sp", S_IFIFO|0600) = -1 EEXIST (File exists) [pid 5283] open("/tmp/vmware-manfred/vmware-tray-:0-sp", O_WRONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 23 [pid 5283] write(23, "poweredOn", 9) = 9 [pid 5283] close(23) = 0 Directly afterwards, all threads of the group are being closed: [pid 5283] munmap(0x7f7be0bfc000, 9609648) = 0 [pid 5283] munmap(0x7f7bd27b8000, 9609648) = 0 [pid 5283] exit_group(0) = ? [pid 5296] +++ exited with 0 +++ +++ exited with 0 +++ QUESTION to those with a working set-up: If you run vmware with strace, what is the next action following in the log after above "inform the tray" ? Thanks in advance.
In my case, running vmplayer results in NOT_IMPLEMENTED /build/mts/release/bora-1031769/bora/lib/misc/codeset.c:1708 Aborted Is it the same issue? 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(In reply to comment #26) > In my case, running vmplayer results in > NOT_IMPLEMENTED /build/mts/release/bora-1031769/bora/lib/misc/codeset.c:1708 > Aborted > Is it the same issue? that seems the bug #465126 . My setup is affected too.
(In reply to comment #27) > (In reply to comment #26) > > In my case, running vmplayer results in > > NOT_IMPLEMENTED /build/mts/release/bora-1031769/bora/lib/misc/codeset.c:1708 > > Aborted > > Is it the same issue? > > that seems the bug #465126 . My setup is affected too. Thank you! You are right, the issue was with icu, so not this bug.
This is fixed for me with Workstation 10.0
Two years of silence, I guess this is fixed.
