After emerging vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r2 and vmware-server-1.0.8.126538 /etc/init.d/vmware was started (properly), but vmware command fails to start with this error: /opt/vmware/server/lib/bin/vmware: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_thread_gettime
It looks like you're using a glib library that's too new for vmware-server (which is quite old). Whilst we don't officially support the vmware command in vmware-server (you should be using vmware-server-console, but it's likely to have the same problem), you might try the following work around: $ VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK="force" vmware This is most likely an issue with vmware pre-bundling libraries, and then using some system libraries and some bundled libraries. I'm not sure it's something we can really help fix. Also, when filing bugs, it's requested that you always include the output from the "emerge --info" command...
(In reply to comment #1) > It looks like you're using a glib library that's too new for vmware-server yes, I have the last glib-2.18.4, but few minutes ago I emerged glib-2.16.5, get two errors: /opt/vmware/server/lib/bin/vmware: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_dgettext /opt/vmware/server/lib/bin/vmware: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_thread_gettime using glib-2.18.3 gets undefined symbol: g_thread_gettime error > vmware-server (you should be using vmware-server-console, but it's likely to > have the same problem), Yes, it's exactly the same :-) > you might try the following work around: > $ VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK="force" vmware $ VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK="force" vmware stops on "waitpid()" syscall $ VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK="force" vmware-server-console fails with g_thread_gettime error > I'm not sure it's something we can really help fix. vmware-server worked for me last time about 1,5 years ago, so it seems I can forget it :-( "emerge --info" : Portage 2.1.6.7 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.27-gentoo-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r7-i686-AMD_Athlon-tm-_X2_Dual_Core_Processor_BE-2350-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:30:02 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r8 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.28-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -m3dnow" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /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/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control /var/vpopmail/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -m3dnow" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="sk" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 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="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/portage/local/layman/voip /usr/portage/local/layman/vmware /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl acpi alsa apache2 arts avi bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cups dri dvd gdbm gpm iconv isdnlog java jikes jpeg kde kdeenablefinal maildir midi mmx mp3 mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pcre perl png pppd python qt readline reflection rtc scanner sdl session spl sse sse2 ssl sysfs tcpd tk unicode usb vorbis x86 xorg 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 auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd 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 dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="ptp2" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="sk" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev v4l nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Hi, did you find any solution?
I haven't found anything yet, but Norbert might have got something...
It works for me with "VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=force vmware-server-console". HTH, Cheers
(In reply to comment #4) > did you find any solution? Yes and no, I simply switched to VirtualBox (emerge virtualbox or virtualbox-bin) which works so great, I forgot about vmware completely. FYI: virtualbox can to use vmware images too.
To make it work I used path from here: http://www.monarialx.it/en/vmwareserver in original "install" file I changed: from patch /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/lib/wrapper-gtk24.sh < /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/lib/wrapper-gtk24.sh.diff to patch /opt/vmware/server/console/lib/lib/wrapper-gtk24.sh < /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/lib/wrapper-gtk24.sh.diff and from patch /usr/bin/vmware-server-console < /usr/bin/vmware-server-console.diff to patch /opt/vmware/server/console/bin/vmware-server-console < /usr/bin/vmware-server-console.diff
