Bug 396431 – app-emulation/vmware-workstation-8.0.1.528992-r2 - segfault in libnvidia-glcore.so

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE

[Description Anthony Boynes 2011-12-29 17:08:24 UTC]

Whenever I try to run vmware-workstation-8.0.1.528992-r2, it starts to load and then exits.  Dmesg shows a segfault with libnvidia-glcore.so when it dies.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Click on VMware Workstation icon
2.  Appears to be attempting to load for about 2 seconds
3.  Exits with no displayed error message
Actual Results:  
VMware Workstation fails to load.

Expected Results:  
GUI for vmware workstation should load, and I should be able to access my VMs.

It was working fine.  Noticed the problem after not using vmware for about a week, after a number of updates had been applied.  I tried reverting back to a previous stable version of nvidia-drivers, but this did not help.

[Comment 1 Anthony Boynes 2011-12-29 17:10:31 UTC]

Created attachment 297319 [details]
Results of emerge --info

[Comment 2 Anthony Boynes 2011-12-29 17:13:41 UTC]

dmesg error:

vmware[4019]: segfault at 0 ip   (null) sp bfaa9dec error 14 in libnvidia-glcore.so.290.10[b3d26000+1b9f000]

[Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2011-12-29 17:14:06 UTC]

Please post the output of the command while run from a shell.

[Comment 4 Anthony Boynes 2011-12-29 17:20:27 UTC]

The icon points to /opt/vmware/bin/vmware, which does not return any output when run from a terminal session.

[Comment 5 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2011-12-29 17:45:02 UTC]

So can you run a gdb backtrace on that?

[Comment 6 Anthony Boynes 2011-12-29 18:43:30 UTC]

$ gdb /opt/vmware/bin/vmware
GNU gdb (Gentoo 7.2 p1) 7.2
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License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
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This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://bugs.gentoo.org/>...
Reading symbols from /opt/vmware/bin/vmware...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /opt/vmware/bin/vmware 
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]

Program exited with code 0377.
(gdb) bt
No stack.
(gdb)

[Comment 7 Andreas K. Hüttel 2013-06-23 13:16:00 UTC]

Is this still a problem?

[Comment 8 Andreas K. Hüttel 2013-10-22 21:40:23 UTC]

(In reply to Andreas K. Hüttel from comment #7)
> Is this still a problem?

Seems not.