Bug 464990 – app-emulation/vmware-workstation-? with dev-cpp/gtkmm-2.24.3 - segmentation faults

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 464994
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Harris Landgarten 2013-04-07 18:09:28 UTC]

after update to gtkmm-2.24.3 vmware-workstation segfaults on almost all actions even clicking about and if you closed it last with a existing vm configured it will only flash and immediately exit

Downgrading to 2.24.2 fixes the problem

[Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2013-04-07 19:40:29 UTC]

Please post your `emerge --info app-emulation/vmware-workstation' output in a comment.

[Comment 2 Pacho Ramos 2013-04-07 20:16:23 UTC]

And also all messages you get when running it from a terminal

[Comment 3 Harris Landgarten 2013-04-07 20:23:27 UTC]

This is a runtime error on a binary package. I suggest a blocker in the vmware-workstation ebuild similar to the ones you use in nvidia-drivers when it is incompatible with a new xorg-server.

There is now information reported in the terminal or logs. I found the segfault through gdb and the downgrade fixes it.


I am attaching a strace. Sorry I didn't save the bt from gdb.

[Comment 4 Harris Landgarten 2013-04-07 20:24:25 UTC]

Created attachment 344756 [details]
strace showing error

[Comment 5 Harris Landgarten 2013-04-07 20:33:00 UTC]

In case it wasn't clear, there are no messages in the terminal. You can verify the error with vmware-player which will just skip to the next line and not run when you type vmplayer

[Comment 6 megabaks 2013-04-08 02:41:35 UTC]

about vmware ---> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-956334.html

[Comment 7 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2013-04-08 11:28:53 UTC]

Comment on attachment 344756 [details]
strace showing error

This doesn't tell us anything specific about the segmentation fault.

[Comment 8 Harris Landgarten 2013-04-08 12:10:09 UTC]

vmware-workstation is a core production app for me so I cannot break it during the workweek.

As I remember from the gdb session that found the problem:

1. I tested by running vmware for a terminal with no vm configured so the main window came. up.

2. I attached gdb to the running pid of vmware

3. after typing continue in gdb I clicked on about vmware and the program segfaulted.

4. a bt full showed the a vmware lib tried to create a button which called gtkmm and atkmm libs and then segfaulted.

Anyone can reproduce this easily with vmplayer.

Note, vmware bundles their own copies of all these libraries but they are not used. I didn't see a documented way to tell vmware-workstation to use bundled libraries.

[Comment 9 megabaks 2013-04-08 12:16:12 UTC]

Created attachment 344818 [details]
libgnomecanvasmm_and_gtkmm-2.4.3-build.log

(In reply to comment #7)
> Comment on attachment 344756 [details]
> strace showing error
> 
> This doesn't tell us anything specific about the segmentation fault.

app-emulation/vmware-workstation depend on dev-cpp/libgnomecanvasmm
last available version of dev-cpp/libgnomecanvasmm - 2.26.0
this version can't be build with gtkmm-2.4.3
if we have compiled vmware-workstation and try it use with gtkmm-2.4.3 ----> segfault on libgnomecanvasmm

[Comment 10 megabaks 2013-04-08 12:51:05 UTC]

s/2.4.3/2.24.3

[Comment 11 Harris Landgarten 2013-04-09 00:45:42 UTC]

Vadim, do you need anymore info from me or have you been able to reproduce the problem on your own?

[Comment 12 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2013-04-10 16:49:12 UTC]

*** Bug 465388 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 13 Pawel Sedrowski 2013-04-10 19:08:00 UTC]

I encountered the same problem. In the vmware-ui.log I attached you can find more information.

[Comment 14 Pawel Sedrowski 2013-04-10 19:09:36 UTC]

Created attachment 345142 [details]
vmware-ui log

[Comment 15 Pacho Ramos 2013-06-21 11:15:24 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 464994 ***