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I noticed that my realplayer also has the same problems, so I don't |
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think it's a vmware-specific issue... |
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Hmm... |
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On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 09:04:21AM -0500, Michael George wrote: |
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> I have tried re-running vmware-config, emerge -C of vmware player with a |
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> complete reinstall, I even tried version 1.0.3 (which wouldn't start up |
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> right), but none of that worked. The fonts for the player are still |
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> missing. BTW, I resync my portage tree daily, so it's not out of date. |
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> |
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> Does vmware-player install as binaries? I guess I didn't watch the |
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> build to see if it doesn... if so, then maybe my upgrade of the |
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> emul-linux-x86-{baselibs,xlibs,qtlibs,soundlibs,gtklibs,sdl,medialibs} might |
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> have caused the problem. |
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> |
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> ldd on vmplayer shows it as statically linked, so it's not a shared |
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> library that's the problem... |
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> |
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> qdepends shows shared-mime-info as a dependency, so I tried updating |
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> that... But that didn't help, either. |
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> |
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> I wonder if there's a dependency that is overlooked in the ebuild... Is there |
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> a way to find that out? |
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> |
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> Anyone have any other suggestions? |
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> |
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> On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 09:50:05AM -0500, The Doctor wrote: |
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> > Michael George wrote: |
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> > > I can run vmware-player just fine and my install of XP will run in it, |
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> > > but all the text is just little boxes. Luckily, I remember the |
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> > > important ones (exit, how to focus and release focus, etc), but I cannot |
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> > > change any options now. |
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> > > |
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> > > Has anyone else run into this? Is it perhaps the emulation libraries |
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> > > being a problem? |
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> > |
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> > Yes - I ran into this with mozilla-firefox-bin (which also seems to have broken |
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> > Flash 9) and mplayer-bin a couple of days ago. This morning I ran an emerge -C |
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> > to uninstall all of the packages, re-sync'd my Portage tree, and re-emerged |
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> > everything. Because I'm not in the same physical location as that box, though, |
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> > I can't test it yet. I'll try it tonight after I get home from work, though, |
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> > and post my results. |
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-M |
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There are 10 kinds of people in this world: |
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Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. |
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