vmware throws these errors and refuses to start: ... Unable to load image-loading module: /build/mts/release/bora-19175/bora/build/release/ws/vmui/../libdir/libconf/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-png.so: /build/mts/release/bora-19175/bora/build/release/ws/vmui/../libdir/libconf/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-png.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Unable to load image-loading module: /build/mts/release/bora-19175/bora/build/release/ws/vmui/../libdir/libconf/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-png.so: /build/mts/release/bora-19175/bora/build/release/ws/vmui/../libdir/libconf/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-png.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (vmware:29594): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Error loading XPM image loader: Unable to load image-loading module: /build/mts/release/bora-19175/bora/build/release/ws/vmui/../libdir/libconf/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-xpm.so: /build/mts/release/bora-19175/bora/build/release/ws/vmui/../libdir/libconf/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-xpm.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Portage 2.1_pre7-r5 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.4-r1, 2.6.15 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre17 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/NX/etc /usr/NX/home /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.gentoo.mesh-solutions.com/gentoo/ http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync12.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac aalib acpi alsa apache2 apm avi bash-completion berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts bootsplash bzip2 ccache cdda cddb cdparanoia cdr chroot crypt cups curl dga dri dv dvd dvdr dvdread ecc eds emboss encode fbcon ffmpeg fftw foomaticdb fortran gd-external gdbm gif gimp gimpprint glep glitz gmp gpm graphviz imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog jabber java jikes jit jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal kqemu ladcca lcms libg++ libwww lzo mad mhash mikmod mime mjpeg mmx mmxext mng motif mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia objc ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam parse-clocks pcre pdf pdflib perl physfs png pppd python qt quicktime readline recode samba sdl spell sqlite sse sse2 ssl stream tcltk tcpd threads tiff transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode utf8 visualization vorbis win32codecs wxgtk1 xine xml xml2 xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Which version?
app-emulation/vmware-workstation-5.5.1.19175-r2
Umm... WORKSFORME perfectly. Anyway, since this is a binary product, you need to get support from upstream as there is little that I can do otherwise. If upstream offers a fix, then I'll gladly add it to the ebuild.