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On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> wrote: |
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> On 02/14/2011 04:27 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@×××××.de> |
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>> wrote: |
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>>> On 02/13/2011 10:24 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>>>> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Mark Knecht<markknecht@×××××.com> |
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>>>> wrote: |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> This morning I did an xorg-server upgrade which included IIRC 33 files |
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>>>>> total on my system. After the upgrade I am unable to run the vmplayer |
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>>>>> app. The GUI never comes up. If I run it in a terminal it seems to die |
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>>>>> quietly after about 5 seconds. There are no additional messages in |
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>>>>> dmesg. |
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>>>> OK - there is nothing of interest in the setup log file above, but in |
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>>>> the same directory there is a player-log which is catching the crash. |
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>>>> I cannot tell what's kicking it off so I'm considering uninstalling |
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>>>> all the vmware stuff, looking for stale links, then reinstalling |
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>>>> vmware. |
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>>> Are you using the ebuilds for vmware? (Latest versions are in the |
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>>> "vmware" |
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>>> overlay.) I run latest X.Org (1.9.4) and both workstation as well as |
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>>> player |
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>>> have no problems here. |
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>> I switched to those from Pentoo today Nikos and that's when it started |
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>> working. However what I found so far didn't support the bundled |
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>> workstation/tools package, only the workstation so right now I don't |
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>> have the additions stuff installed. I'll be looking into that |
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>> tomorrow. |
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> It has a USE flags for those ("vmware-tools" flag) which pulls-in the |
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> app-emulation/vmware-tools package. That package itself has USE flags for |
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> which tools you want ("vmware_guest_linux", "vmware_guest_windows", etc.) |
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> The ISO images for the tools can then be found in the |
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> /opt/vmware/lib/vmware/isoimages directory. |
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Thanks! I hadn't found the flags for vmware-tools. I'm sure that will help. |
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The VMs are already running for the day so I'll look at doing the |
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emerge later this afternoon when work is done. |
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Again, a big, appreciative thank you for the info. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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