Re: [gentoo-amd64] vmware-player fonts unreadable

[Michael George]

I have tried re-running vmware-config, emerge -C of vmware player with a
complete reinstall, I even tried version 1.0.3 (which wouldn't start up
right), but none of that worked.  The fonts for the player are still
missing.  BTW, I resync my portage tree daily, so it's not out of date.

Does vmware-player install as binaries?  I guess I didn't watch the
build to see if it doesn...  if so, then maybe my upgrade of the
emul-linux-x86-{baselibs,xlibs,qtlibs,soundlibs,gtklibs,sdl,medialibs} might
have caused the problem.

ldd on vmplayer shows it as statically linked, so it's not a shared
library that's the problem...

qdepends shows shared-mime-info as a dependency, so I tried updating
that...  But that didn't help, either.

I wonder if there's a dependency that is overlooked in the ebuild...  Is there
a way to find that out?

Anyone have any other suggestions?

On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 09:50:05AM -0500, The Doctor wrote:
> Michael George wrote:
> > I can run vmware-player just fine and my install of XP will run in it,
> > but all the text is just little boxes.  Luckily, I remember the
> > important ones (exit, how to focus and release focus, etc), but I cannot
> > change any options now.
> >
> > Has anyone else run into this?  Is it perhaps the emulation libraries
> > being a problem?
>
> Yes - I ran into this with mozilla-firefox-bin (which also seems to have broken
> Flash 9) and mplayer-bin a couple of days ago.  This morning I ran an emerge -C
> to uninstall all of the packages, re-sync'd my Portage tree, and re-emerged
> everything.  Because I'm not in the same physical location as that box, though,
> I can't test it yet.  I'll try it tonight after I get home from work, though,
> and post my results.

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