Bug 311435 – app-emulation/vmware-player-2.5.3.185404 crashes

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST

[Description Wonko 2010-03-26 12:17:47 UTC]

For some months, VMware player crashes on startup. Teh same version used to work at end of last year.

A simple start results in a *** glibc detected*** memory corruption error, but this is resolved by setting VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=force (see bug #290006).

Still, vmplayer does not run.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. export VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=force
2. vmplayer

Actual Results:  
Logging to /tmp/vmware-wonko/setup-8548.log
/opt/vmware/player/bin/vmplayer: line 31:  8548 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) "$BINDIR"/vmware-modconfig --appname="VMware Player" --icon="vmware-player"



When I execute the commands in /opt/vmware/player/bin/vmplayer by hand, and omit the "$BINDIR"/vmware-modconfig --appname="VMware Player" --icon="vmware-player", the player starts, but exits immediately when I open an existing VM.

Also happens as root.

Portage 2.2_rc67 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.11-r1, 2.6.32-tuxonice-r5 i686)
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                        System Settings
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System uname: Linux-2.6.32-tuxonice-r5-i686-AMD_Athlon-tm-_Dual_Core_Processor_4850e-with-gentoo-2.0.1
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 05:45:01 +0000
distcc 3.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu [enabled]
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     4.1_p2-r1
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.10
dev-lang/python:     2.6.5, 3.1.2
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r8
dev-util/cmake:      2.8.1
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1
sys-apps/openrc:     0.6.1-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.65
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r2, 1.8.5-r4, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.20.1
sys-devel/gcc:       3.3.6-r1, 3.4.6-r2, 4.1.2, 4.3.4, 4.4.3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6b
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.33
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=k8-sse3 -mfpmath=sse -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-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 /var/lib/hsqldb"
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"
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8-sse3 -mfpmath=sse -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/var/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y"
FEATURES="assume-digests buildpkg buildsyspkg ccache collision-protect distcc distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.imj.fr/pub/gentoo/ http://mirror.leaseweb.com/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.leaseweb.com/gentoo/"
LANG="de_DE.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="de"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/var/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="/var/portage/tree"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/portage/layman/kde /var/portage/layman/kde-sunset /var/portage/layman/armagetron /var/portage/layman/science /var/portage/layman/zugaina /var/portage/layman/sunrise /var/portage/local"
SYNC="rsync://wonkology.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow X a52 aac aalib acl acpi aim alsa apm audiofile bash-completion bcmath berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo calendar cdparanoia cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt ctype cups cvs cxx dbus dga directfb dri dts dvb dvd dvdr eds emacs emboss encode evo fam fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm ggi gif gimp ginac gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk hal handbook hddtemp iconv ieee1394 imagemagick imlib ipv6 jabber jack java javascript jbig jpeg jpeg2k kde latex ldap libnotify lirc lm_sensors mad maildir matroska matrox mikmod mime mmx mng modplug modules motif mp3 mp4 mpeg mplayer msn mudflap musepack musicbrainz nas ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg openal opengl openmp oss pam pcre pdf perl php plotutils png ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 quicktime radius readline recode reflection ruby samba scanner sdl semantic-desktop session slang slp sndfile sockets sox speex spell spl sse sse2 sse3 ssl startup-notification subversion svg svga sysfs tcpd theora threads thunar tiff truetype unicode usb videos vim-syntax visualization vorbis win32codecs wma wmf wxwindows x264 x86 xattr xcomposite xine xml xorg xosd xpm xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 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="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 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" ELIBC="glibc" FRITZCAPI_CARDS="fcpci" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de" LIRC_DEVICES="serial" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fglrx radeon radeonhd vesa" 
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

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                        Package Settings
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app-emulation/vmware-player-2.5.3.185404 was built with the following:
USE=""

[Comment 1 Wonko 2010-03-26 12:21:10 UTC]

Created attachment 225317 [details]
strace of vmplayer command

[Comment 2 Wonko 2010-03-26 12:22:05 UTC]

Created attachment 225319 [details]
strace of vmware-modconfig

strace "$BINDIR"/vmware-modconfig --appname="VMware Player" --icon="vmware-player" 2> vmware-modinfo.strace

[Comment 3 Vadim Kuznetsov (RETIRED) 2010-03-26 14:00:48 UTC]

Hi,
vmware crashed because vmware-modconfig crashed.
vmware-modconfig crashed after reading /opt/vmware/player/lib/vmware/modules/modules.xml.
Purpose of vmware-modconfig are to check if correct modules are installed and loaded and compile them if they are not. In gentoo vmware-modules ebuild takes care of that. Could you verify the versions of installed modules and if they are loaded?

[Comment 4 Robert Schultz 2010-04-09 16:17:26 UTC]

This happens on my machine as well. Running ~x86 and:
vmware-modules-1.0.0.25-r1
vmware-player-2.5.3.185404

Unmerging the packages and re-merging had no effect.

There is a forum thread about this issue here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-820554-start-0.html

WORKAROUND:
Replace /opt/vmware/player/lib/vmware/lib/libxml2.so.2 with the one from /usr/lib

[Comment 5 Vadim Kuznetsov (RETIRED) 2010-04-18 11:59:43 UTC]

Please try vmware-player-2.5.4.246459.ebuild or vmware-player-2.5.3.185404-r1.ebuild
Thanks.