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 BTW, I resync my portage tree daily, so it's not out of date.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. -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list