It seems the jump to glibc-2.3.3_pre20040420 from glibc-2.3.3_pre20040207 broke my vmware. The following forums threads cover it. The end of the vmware thread is where I came to this conclusion, and since then I've verified it. Fixing my problem only requires downgrading glibc. http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=3722&tstart=135 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=150976
Almost forgot: Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-amd64-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040207-r0, 2.6.5-gentoo-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 x86_64 4 Gentoo Base System version 1.4.10 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo ftp://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://vlaai.snt.ipv6.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/ ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo http://ftp6.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.ipv6.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ ftp://vlaai.snt.ipv6.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/bmg/portage /home/core/Data/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aac aalib acl acpi alsa amd64 apache2 apm arts audiofile avi berkdb breakme cddb cdr chroot clamav crypt curl dv dvd dvdr encode escreen esd etwin evms2 evo faad fam fax fbcon flac flash foomaticdb gdbm gif gimpprint glut gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 icq imagemagick imap imlib imlib2 ipv6 irda jabber jack java javascript jpeg kde libg++ libgda libwww lirc mad maildir matroska mcal menu mikmod mng mono motif mozilla mpeg mpeg4 msn mysql ncurses nls nntp nogcj nvidia offensive ofx oggvorbis opengl oscar oss pam parse-clocks pcap pdflib perl physfs pic png ppds psyco pwdb python qt quicktime readline rplay samba sasl sdl slang snmp socks5 sox speex spell ssl stroke tcltk tcpd theora tiff transcode truetype usb wmf wxwindows xml2 xmms xv xvid yahoo zlib"
Please, please, please, please tell me that you are not actually using *any* packages from breakmygentoo.net
Sorry, I can't tell you that. However, I can tell you that only gtk+/gnome packages come from breakmygentoo.net.
Also, this is on amd64? I have purposefully *NOT* keyworded vmware for amd64 due to massive issues with it and the lack of upstream vendor support. Unfortunately, until I get some better vendor support, there is little I can do. I will try to look into this and see if I can come up with a resolution, but since we don't support vmware on amd64 (hence, no keywords) you cannot expect me to spend a lot of time trying to solve this without upstream help. You can look into bug #47023 for more information and the reasoning for me not keywording for amd64. Once vmware releases a supported version for amd64, or at minimum one which doesn't have segfaults in default hardware configuration, we will revisit this issue.
