Bug 64237 – vmware-4.5.2-8848 crashes when a text is select with the mouse

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Francesco Lamonica 2004-09-16 04:01:23 UTC]

Emerged vmware-4.5.2-8848 in amd64 (stable w no ~ packages installed)
i tried to create a new linux guest host, then when i had to type the name of the OS, i selected w the mouse the default value to change it and the app crashed. The crash is reproduceable selecting any text in any input box,

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Select with the mouse a text in a textbox
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Application crashed 

Expected Results:  
not crashed :-) 

root@Sandstorm:~# emerge info 
Portage 2.0.50-r11 (gcc34-2004.2, gcc-3.4.1, glibc-2.3.4.20040619-r1, 2.6.8.1) 
================================================================= 
System uname: 2.6.8.1 x86_64 4 
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 
ccache version 2.3 [enabled] 
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" 
AUTOCLEAN="yes" 
CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -fweb -ftracers" 
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" 
COMPILER="" 
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" 
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" 
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -fweb -ftracers" 
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" 
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache" 
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org 
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" 
MAKEOPTS="-j2" 
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" 
PORTDIR="/usr/portage" 
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" 
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" 
USE="X alsa amd64 apm arts avi berkdb cdr crypt cscope cups dvd dvdr encode 
esd fam flac foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imlib jpeg kde libg++ libwww 
linguas_en linguas_it mad matroska mikmod motif mozilla mpeg multilib ncurses 
nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline 
samba sdl slang spell ssl tcpd theora tiff truetype xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib" 
 
Application output 
root@Sandstorm:~# /opt/vmware/bin/vmware 
 
Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C 
 
Gdk-WARNING **: can not set locale modifiers 
 
Gdk-ERROR **: file gdkselection.c: line 331 (gdk_string_to_compound_text): 
assertion failed: (property.encoding == gdk_atom_intern ("COMPOUND_TEXT", 
FALSE) && property.format == 8) 
aborting... 
root@Sandstorm:~# /opt/vmware/bin/vmware 
 
Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C 
 
Gdk-WARNING **: can not set locale modifiers 
 
Gdk-ERROR **: file gdkselection.c: line 331 (gdk_string_to_compound_text): 
assertion failed: (property.encoding == gdk_atom_intern ("COMPOUND_TEXT", 
FALSE) && property.format == 8) 
aborting...

[Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-09-16 16:53:08 UTC]

There's no such -ftracers CFLAG, but rather -ftracer...

I'll look into this to see what I can do, but since it is within the application itself, I doubt I will be able to do much with VMware being a binary application.

[Comment 2 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-11-03 18:20:36 UTC]

Try version 4.5.2.8848-r2 and see if this fixes your problem.