[gentoo-user] Re: vmplayer not working after xorg upgrade

[Mark Knecht]

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> <SNIP>
>>
>> Here is what i see:
>>
>> mark@c2stable ~ $ vmplayer
>> Logging to /tmp/vmware-mark/setup-5266.log
> <SNIP>
>> mark@c2stable ~ $
> <SNIP>
>
> OK - there is nothing of interest in the setup log file above, but in
> the same directory there is a player-log which is catching the crash.
> I cannot tell what's kicking it off so I'm considering uninstalling
> all the vmware stuff, looking for stale links, then reinstalling
> vmware.
>
> Possibly this is some issue with needing to update/rebuild  some
> standard library?
>
> Thanks in advance for any ideas.
>
> - Mark
>
> mark@c2stable ~ $ cat /tmp/vmware-mark/player-5216.log
> Feb 13 12:15:36.266: player| Log for VMware Player pid=5216
> version=3.1.2 build=build-301548 option=Release
> Feb 13 12:15:36.266: player| The process is 64-bit.
<SNIP>

OK, it's working again, but I'm not happy.

Rebuilt all the VMware stuff multiple times. Nothing fixed it. Played
with anything I could think of. Nothing fixed it.

Decided to drop the Pentoo overlay and try the vmware overlay. Pain in
the butt because it didn't seem to support the same bundled revision
I'd been using. Completely uninstalled 7.1.3, installed 6.5. It
started working but the mouse was a mess and not working right. I then
tried the 7.1.3 unbundled version and it started working again.

I haven't a clue what really happened here or why it's working now.

I'm not confident it will work tomorrow.

- Mark