[gentoo-user] vmplayer not working after xorg upgrade

[Mark Knecht]

This morning I did an xorg-server upgrade which included IIRC 33 files
total on my system. After the upgrade I am unable to run the vmplayer
app. The GUI never comes up. If I run it in a terminal it seems to die
quietly after about 5 seconds. There are no additional messages in
dmesg. The machine is _mostly_ stable. The machine is emerge -DuN
@world/revdep-rebuild -i clean at this time.

I tried upgrading to 2.6.37 a month ago but had this same problem so I
fell back to 2.6.36-gentoo-r6 which has been working. At the time I
was using an ATI card so I'm going to try 2.6.37 again after I post
this.

All Virtualbox VMs are running fine.

Can anyone suggest other things to look at? The only purpose this
compute server has in life is to run many VMs for me so this is a big
killer to my afternoon.

I did install mailx/smtp stuff this morning prior to checking these
VMs. I doubt that's involved, but maybe who knows...

 Let me know any questions or requests for more info.

Thanks in advance,
Mark

Here is what i see:

mark@c2stable ~ $ vmplayer
Logging to /tmp/vmware-mark/setup-5266.log
filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.36-gentoo-r6/misc/vmmon.ko
supported:      external
license:        GPL v2
description:    VMware Virtual Machine Monitor.
author:         VMware, Inc.
depends:
vermagic:       2.6.36-gentoo-r6 SMP preempt mod_unload modversions
filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.36-gentoo-r6/misc/vmnet.ko
supported:      external
license:        GPL v2
description:    VMware Virtual Networking Driver.
author:         VMware, Inc.
depends:
vermagic:       2.6.36-gentoo-r6 SMP preempt mod_unload modversions
filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.36-gentoo-r6/misc/vmblock.ko
supported:      external
version:        1.1.2.0
license:        GPL v2
description:    VMware Blocking File System
author:         VMware, Inc.
srcversion:     400149ED038D22A87322D56
depends:
vermagic:       2.6.36-gentoo-r6 SMP preempt mod_unload modversions
parm:           root:The directory the file system redirects to. (charp)
filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.36-gentoo-r6/misc/vmci.ko
supported:      external
license:        GPL v2
description:    VMware Virtual Machine Communication Interface (VMCI).
author:         VMware, Inc.
depends:
vermagic:       2.6.36-gentoo-r6 SMP preempt mod_unload modversions
filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.36-gentoo-r6/misc/vsock.ko
supported:      external
license:        GPL v2
version:        1.0.0.0
description:    VMware Virtual Socket Family
author:         VMware, Inc.
srcversion:     19B3B9DE37C42158B0DC539
depends:        vmci
vermagic:       2.6.36-gentoo-r6 SMP preempt mod_unload modversions
filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.36-gentoo-r6/misc/vmmon.ko
supported:      external
license:        GPL v2
description:    VMware Virtual Machine Monitor.
author:         VMware, Inc.
depends:
vermagic:       2.6.36-gentoo-r6 SMP preempt mod_unload modversions
mark@c2stable ~ $

The kernel is gentoo-sources-2.6.36-r6

mark@c2stable ~ $ uname -a
Linux c2stable 2.6.36-gentoo-r6 #29 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jan 22 07:39:35
PST 2011 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU X 980 @ 3.33GHz GenuineIntel
GNU/Linux
mark@c2stable ~ $

I tried a modules-rebuild -X rebuild but that didn't fix anything.
Here's the list of what get's rebuilt:
(NOTE: For non-module-rebuild users the -X tells it to emerge the
latest rev, not the values shown below)

c2stable ~ # module-rebuild list
** Packages which I will emerge are:
        =x11-base/xorg-drivers-1.7
        =x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.3.2
        =x11-drivers/xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.2
        =x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard-1.4.0
        =x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse-1.5.0
        =x11-drivers/xf86-video-vmware-11.0.1
        =media-libs/mesa-7.8.1
        =x11-drivers/xf86-input-virtualbox-3.2.10-r1
        =x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa-2.3.0
        =x11-libs/libdrm-2.4.23
        =app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-4.0.2
        =app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.28-r1
        =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-270.18
c2stable ~ #

c2stable ~ # cat /etc/make.conf
# Please consult /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example for a more
# detailed example.
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe"
#Safe CFlags for the Core-i7 (web info) saved for reference
#CFLAGS="-march=core2 -msse4 -mcx16 -msahf -O2 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
# WARNING: Changing your CHOST is not something that should be done lightly.
# Please consult http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml before changing.
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
# These are the USE flags that were used in addition to what is provided by the
# profile used for building.
#FEATURES="buildpkg parallel-fetch userfetch"
USE="acpi nptl nptlonly -ipv6 fortran unicode hal dbus X -bluetooth
-esound -timidity -cups -java -gnome gstreamer jpeg jpeg2k kde qt4
qt3support -arts -eds png policykit xvmc"
MAKEOPTS="-j9"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ "
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y"
INPUT_DEVICES="evdev mouse keyboard"
VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev nvidia vesa vmware"
#VIDEO_CARDS="radeon fbdev vesa"
ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel"
LINGUAS="en"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="dlj-1.1 PUEL AdobeFlash-10.1"

source /var/lib/layman/make.conf

# If you have layman installed, this line must be below the layman
make.conf line
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="${PORTDIR_OVERLAY} /usr/local/portage/"

c2stable ~ #

c2stable ~ # lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
vmnet                  30852  13
vmblock                 9883  1
vsock                  33794  0
vmci                   46073  1 vsock
vmmon                  64450  0
ipv6                  211146  32
vboxnetadp              3948  0
vboxnetflt             14445  0
vboxdrv              1737903  2 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt
snd_hda_codec_nvhdmi    12325  4
nvidia              10408743  28
snd_hda_codec_analog    64664  1
snd_hda_intel          18536  3
snd_hda_codec          55527  3
snd_hda_codec_nvhdmi,snd_hda_codec_analog,snd_hda_intel
i2c_i801                6596  0
snd_pcm                60107  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer              15597  1 snd_pcm
snd                    38675  11
snd_hda_codec_analog,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore                840  1 snd
sky2                   38718  0
snd_page_alloc          5961  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
rtc_cmos                8078  0
agpgart                23806  1 nvidia
c2stable ~ #