With my locale, the vmware-workstation installer fails to unpack the program files correctly (see below). Running "LANG=C emerge ..." works fine. Module Patcher: patching file /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-workstation-6.5.1.126130/temp/tmpdY57g2/.installer/vmware-player-extras.py Module Patcher: patching file /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-workstation-6.5.1.126130/temp/tmpdY57g2/.installer/vmware-player.py Module Patcher: patching file /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-workstation-6.5.1.126130/temp/tmpdY57g2/.installer/vmware-workstation.py You must accept the EULA to continue. Press enter to proceed. Do you agree? [yes/no]: yes Installing VMware Player 2.5.1 Configuring...Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/logging/handlers.py", line 73, in emit ] 62% if self.shouldRollover(record): File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/logging/handlers.py", line 146, in shouldRollover msg = "%s\n" % self.format(record) File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/logging/__init__.py", line 630, in format return fmt.format(record) File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/logging/__init__.py", line 421, in format s = self._fmt % record.__dict__ UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 20: ordinal not in range(128) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/logging/handlers.py", line 73, in emit if self.shouldRollover(record): File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/logging/handlers.py", line 146, in shouldRollover msg = "%s\n" % self.format(record) File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/logging/__init__.py", line 630, in format return fmt.format(record) File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/logging/__init__.py", line 421, in format s = self._fmt % record.__dict__ UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 57: ordinal not in range(128) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/logging/handlers.py", line 73, in emit if self.shouldRollover(record): File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/logging/handlers.py", line 146, in shouldRollover msg = "%s\n" % self.format(record) File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/logging/__init__.py", line 630, in format return fmt.format(record) File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/logging/__init__.py", line 421, in format s = self._fmt % record.__dict__ UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 57: ordinal not in range(128) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/logging/handlers.py", line 73, in emit if self.shouldRollover(record): File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/logging/handlers.py", line 146, in shouldRollover msg = "%s\n" % self.format(record) File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/logging/__init__.py", line 630, in format return fmt.format(record) File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/logging/__init__.py", line 421, in format s = self._fmt % record.__dict__ UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 57: ordinal not in range(128) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/logging/handlers.py", line 73, in emit if self.shouldRollover(record): File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/logging/handlers.py", line 146, in shouldRollover msg = "%s\n" % self.format(record) File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/logging/__init__.py", line 630, in format return fmt.format(record) File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/logging/__init__.py", line 421, in format s = self._fmt % record.__dict__ UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 57: ordinal not in range(128) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/logging/handlers.py", line 73, in emit if self.shouldRollover(record): File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/logging/handlers.py", line 146, in shouldRollover msg = "%s\n" % self.format(record) File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/logging/__init__.py", line 630, in format return fmt.format(record) File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/logging/__init__.py", line 421, in format s = self._fmt % record.__dict__ UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 57: ordinal not in range(128) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/logging/handlers.py", line 73, in emit if self.shouldRollover(record): File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/logging/handlers.py", line 146, in shouldRollover msg = "%s\n" % self.format(record) File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/logging/__init__.py", line 630, in format return fmt.format(record) File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/logging/__init__.py", line 421, in format s = self._fmt % record.__dict__ Installing VMware Workstation 6.5.1 Copying files... [##################################################### ] 76% pinacolada ~ # locale LANG=de_DE.utf8@euro LC_CTYPE="de_DE.utf8@euro" LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.utf8@euro" LC_TIME="de_DE.utf8@euro" LC_COLLATE=C LC_MONETARY="de_DE.utf8@euro" LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.utf8@euro" LC_PAPER="de_DE.utf8@euro" LC_NAME="de_DE.utf8@euro" LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.utf8@euro" LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.utf8@euro" LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.utf8@euro" LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.utf8@euro" LC_ALL= pinacolada ~ # pinacolada ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.29-gentoo-r5 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.29-gentoo-r5-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7_CPU_920_@_2.67GHz-with-glibc2.2.5 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:25:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.8-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.4-r2 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 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: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -ggdb" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /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/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -ggdb" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="de_DE.utf8@euro" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="de en nl" MAKEOPTS="-j9" PKGDIR="/usr/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="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage-akh" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac accessibility acl acpi akonadi alsa amd64 analogtv animgif arts audiofile bash-completion berkdb bittorrent bzip2 cairo cdaudio cdda cddax cddb cdparanoia cdr chm cisco cli cmake corefonts cracklib crypt css cups cupsddk curl cxx dbus divx djvu dri dvd dvdr encode enscript exif ffmpeg flac fortran gcj gd gdbm gif glitz gnuplot gpm gps gtk hal iconv id3 id3tag imagemagick imap ipv6 isdnlog jpeg jpeg2k kde kontact lame laptop latex lm_sensors math mbox midi mikmod mime mmx mng mp3 mp4 mp4live mpeg mplayer mudflap multilib mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl php plotutils png pppd python qt3support qt4 quicktime rdesktop readline reflection samba sasl session smp spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl ssse3 subversion svg sysfs syslog tcpd theora tiff truetype unicode usb vnc vorbis webkit wmf x264 xcb xine xml xmp xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci 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" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de en nl" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS pinacolada ~ #
(In reply to comment #0) > With my locale, the vmware-workstation installer fails to unpack the program > files correctly (see below). > > Running "LANG=C emerge ..." works fine. I have the same problem here, but LANG=C does not help: lapslave distfiles # LANG=C emerge vmware-workstation Calculating dependencies... done! >>> Verifying ebuild manifests >>> Emerging (1 of 1) app-emulation/vmware-workstation-6.5.3.185404 * VMware-Workstation-6.5.3-185404.x86_64.bundle RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] >>> Unpacking source... Unbundling /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-workstation-6.5.3.185404/distdir/VMware-Workstation-6.5.3-185404.x86_ 64.bundle >>> Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-workstation-6.5.3.185404/work >>> Preparing source in /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-workstation-6.5.3.185404/work ... * Applying vmware-workstation-6.5.3.185404-installer.patch ... [ ok ] >>> Source prepared. >>> Configuring source in /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-workstation-6.5.3.185404/work ... >>> Source configured. >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-workstation-6.5.3.185404/work ... >>> Source compiled. >>> Test phase [not enabled]: app-emulation/vmware-workstation-6.5.3.185404 >>> Install vmware-workstation-6.5.3.185404 into /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-workstation-6.5.3.185404/image/ category app-emulation Module Patcher: patching file /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-workstation-6.5.3.185404/temp/tmpl3kNP8/.install er/vmware-vix.py Module Patcher: patching file /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-workstation-6.5.3.185404/temp/tmpl3kNP8/.installer /vmware-player-extras.py Module Patcher: patching file /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-workstation-6.5.3.185404/temp/tmpl3kNP8/.installer /vmware-player.py Module Patcher: patching file /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-workstation-6.5.3.185404/temp/tmpl3kNP8/.installer /vmware-workstation.py You must accept the EULA to continue. Press enter to proceed. Do you agree? [yes/no]: yes Installing VMware Player 2.5.3 . . . lapslave ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.29.6-rt23B44-rt x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.29.6-rt23B44-rt-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T7500_@_2.20GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.11.1 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:15:02 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p28 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.8-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.6.2-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 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: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -mtune=core2 -pipe -mmmx -msse -msse2 -msse3" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /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/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -mtune=core2 -pipe -mmmx -msse -msse2 -msse3" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="de_DE.utf8" LC_ALL="de_DE.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="de en" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/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="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/pro-audio /usr/local/portage/layman/java-overlay /usr/local/portage/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage/layman/drizzt-overlay /usr/local/portage/layman/roslin /usr/local/portage/layman/vmware /usr/local/portage/layman/mozilla /usr/local/portage/layman/x11 /usr/local/portage/layman/desktop-effects /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac aalib accessibility acl acpi additions alsa amd64 apache2 avahi avi bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo caps cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt css ctype cups dbus divx dri dssi dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss emerald encode esd evo exif fam ffmpeg fftw firefox flac fortran freesound gd gdbm gif gimp glitz gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal hdaps iconv injection ipv6 isdnlog jack java java6 javascript jpeg ladspa lame laptop lash ldap libnotify libsamplerate live loop-aes lv2 mad madwifi mdnsresponder-compat mikmod mjpeg mmx modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib mysql mysqli ncurses networkmanager nfs nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia odbc ogg opengl openmp oss pam pcre pdf pear perl php png ppds pppd pulseaudio python qt3support quicktime readline reflection remote samba scanner sdl session spell spl sqlite srt sse sse2 ssl startup-notification subversion suid svg sysfs tcl tcpd thunar tiff tk truetype unicode usb userlocales v4l v4l2 vcd vorbis vst wifi x264 xcb xinerama xml xml2 xorg xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel usb-usx2y usb-audio" 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" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics vmmouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de en" NETBEANS_MODULES="j2ee mobility visualweb php xml java webcommon apisupport groovy gsf harness ide websvccommon enterprise profiler nb" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vmware" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
I have the same problem with vmware-player-2.5.4.246459. It is installed already, but I have problems with the vmmon version, so I tried to just re-emerge it. >>> Emerging (1 of 1) app-emulation/vmware-player-2.5.4.246459 * VMware-Player-2.5.4-246459.x86_64.bundle RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * CPV: app-emulation/vmware-player-2.5.4.246459 * REPO: gentoo * Maintainer: vadimk@gentoo.org vmware@gentoo.org * USE: amd64 elibc_glibc kernel_linux multilib userland_GNU >>> cfg-update-1.8.2-r1: Checksum index is up-to-date ... >>> Unpacking source... Unbundling /var/portage/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-player-2.5.4.246459/distdir/VMware-Player-2.5.4-246459.x86_64.bundle >>> Source unpacked in /var/portage/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-player-2.5.4.246459/work >>> Preparing source in /var/portage/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-player-2.5.4.246459/work ... * Applying vmware-player-2.5.4.246459-installer.patch ... [ ok ] >>> Source prepared. >>> Configuring source in /var/portage/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-player-2.5.4.246459/work ... >>> Source configured. >>> Compiling source in /var/portage/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-player-2.5.4.246459/work ... >>> Source compiled. >>> Test phase [not enabled]: app-emulation/vmware-player-2.5.4.246459 >>> Install vmware-player-2.5.4.246459 into /var/portage/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-player-2.5.4.246459/image/ category app-emulation Module Patcher: patching file /var/portage/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-player-2.5.4.246459/temp/tmpc77JIB/.installer/vmware-player.py Rolling back VMware Player 2.5.4Module Patcher: patching file ./vmware-confdir/components/vmware-player/vmware-player.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/logging/handlers.py", line 76, in emit ] 61% if self.shouldRollover(record): File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/logging/handlers.py", line 149, in shouldRollover msg = "%s\n" % self.format(record) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/logging/__init__.py", line 654, in format return fmt.format(record) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/logging/__init__.py", line 439, in format s = self._fmt % record.__dict__ UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 20: ordinal not in range(128) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/logging/handlers.py", line 76, in emit if self.shouldRollover(record): File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/logging/handlers.py", line 149, in shouldRollover msg = "%s\n" % self.format(record) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/logging/__init__.py", line 654, in format return fmt.format(record) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/logging/__init__.py", line 439, in format s = self._fmt % record.__dict__ UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 57: ordinal not in range(128) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/logging/handlers.py", line 76, in emit if self.shouldRollover(record): File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/logging/handlers.py", line 149, in shouldRollover msg = "%s\n" % self.format(record) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/logging/__init__.py", line 654, in format return fmt.format(record) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/logging/__init__.py", line 439, in format s = self._fmt % record.__dict__ UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 57: ordinal not in range(128) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/logging/handlers.py", line 76, in emit if self.shouldRollover(record): File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/logging/handlers.py", line 149, in shouldRollover msg = "%s\n" % self.format(record) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/logging/__init__.py", line 654, in format return fmt.format(record) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/logging/__init__.py", line 439, in format s = self._fmt % record.__dict__ UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 57: ordinal not in range(128) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/logging/handlers.py", line 76, in emit if self.shouldRollover(record): File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/logging/handlers.py", line 149, in shouldRollover msg = "%s\n" % self.format(record) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/logging/__init__.py", line 654, in format return fmt.format(record) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/logging/__init__.py", line 439, in format s = self._fmt % record.__dict__ UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 57: ordinal not in range(128) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/logging/handlers.py", line 76, in emit if self.shouldRollover(record): File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/logging/handlers.py", line 149, in shouldRollover msg = "%s\n" % self.format(record) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/logging/__init__.py", line 654, in format return fmt.format(record) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/logging/__init__.py", line 439, in format s = self._fmt % record.__dict__ UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 57: ordinal not in range(128) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/logging/handlers.py", line 76, in emit if self.shouldRollover(record): File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/logging/handlers.py", line 149, in shouldRollover msg = "%s\n" % self.format(record) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/logging/__init__.py", line 654, in format return fmt.format(record) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/logging/__init__.py", line 439, in format s = self._fmt % record.__dict__ UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 57: ordinal not in range(128) Deconfiguring... [################################################################ ] 92% Then it hangs, CPU running at 100%. When I interrupt with ^C, still have running processes: 20209 pts/2 SN 0:00 [app-emulation/vmware-player-2.5.4.246459] sandbox "/usr/lib64/portage/bin/ebuild.sh" install 20210 pts/2 SN 0:00 \_ /bin/bash /usr/lib64/portage/bin/ebuild.sh install 20241 pts/2 SN 0:00 \_ /bin/bash /usr/lib64/portage/bin/ebuild.sh install 20254 pts/2 RN 7:53 \_ /usr/bin/python2.6 -W ignore::DeprecationWarning /var/portage/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-player-2.5.4.246459/work/payload/install/vmware-installer/vmware-installer.py --set-setting vmware-installer.libconf /var/portage/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-player-2.5.4.246459/work/payload/install/vmware-installer/lib/libconf --set-setting initdir /var/portage/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-player-2.5.4.246459/temp --set-setting initscriptdir /var/portage/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-player-2.5.4.246459/image//etc/init.d --set-setting prefix /var/portage/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-player-2.5.4.246459/image//opt/vmware/player --set-setting sysconfdir /var/portage/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-player-2.5.4.246459/image//etc --install-component /var/portage/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-player-2.5.4.246459/work/payload/install/vmware-installer --install-bundle /var/portage/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-player-2.5.4.246459/distdir/VMware-Player-2.5.4-246459.x86_64.bundle --console --required LANG=C LC_ALL=C does not help. Portage 2.2_rc77 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.4.4, glibc-2.11.2-r0, 2.6.35-tuxonice-r1 x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.35-tuxonice-r1-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_Dual_Core_Processor_4850e-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:45:02 +0000 distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.1_p7 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11 dev-lang/python: 2.6.5-r3, 3.1.2-r4 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.6.3 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.3-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.67 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-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.4-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.10 sys-devel/make: 3.81-r2 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.35 (sys-kernel/linux-headers) ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8-sse3 -mfpmath=sse -O2 -pipe -ggdb" CHOST="x86_64-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/portage /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 -ggdb" DISTDIR="/var/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y" FEATURES="assume-digests buildpkg buildsyspkg ccache collision-protect distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unknown-features-warn 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 -Wl,--as-needed" 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/portage/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://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X a52 aac aalib acl acpi aim alsa amd64 apache2 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 emacs emboss encode exif fam fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm ggi gif gimp ginac gphoto2 gpm gtk hal handbook hddtemp iconv ieee1394 imagemagick imlib ipv6 jabber jack java javascript jbig jpeg jpeg2k kde latex lcms ldap libnotify lirc lm_sensors mad maildir matroska matrox mikmod mime mmx mng modplug modules motif mp3 mp4 mpeg mplayer msn mudflap multilib musepack musicbrainz nas ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg openal opengl openmp oss pam pango pcre pdf perl php plotutils png ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 quicktime radius rdesktop readline recode reflection ruby samba scanner sdl semantic-desktop session slang slp sndfile sockets sox speex spell sse sse2 sse3 ssl startup-notification subversion svg sysfs tcpd theora threads tiff truetype unicode usb videos vim-syntax visualization vorbis wma wmf wxwindows x264 xattr xcb xcomposite xine xml xorg xosd xpm xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci 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="cgi" 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" MISDN_CARDS="avmfritz" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" SANE_BACKENDS="canon_pp microtek" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fglrx radeon radeonhd vesa" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= app-emulation/vmware-player-2.5.4.246459 was built with the following: USE="(multilib)" CFLAGS="-march=k8-sse3 -mfpmath=sse -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8-sse3 -mfpmath=sse -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
workstation 6 was removed from the tree. bug 385727.
