I noticed that my realplayer also has the same problems, so I don't
think it's a vmware-specific issue...
Hmm...
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 09:04:21AM -0500, Michael George wrote:
> 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 BTW, I resync my portage tree daily, so it's not out of date.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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