Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmplayer not working after xorg upgrade
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 02/13/2011 10:24 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Mark Knecht >> 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. >> >> >> 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. > > Are you using the ebuilds for vmware? (Latest versions are in the "vmware" > overlay.) I run latest X.Org (1.9.4) and both workstation as well as player > have no problems here. Hi Nikos, As of this evening all VMs seem to be working fine on 2.6.37 using the ebuilds from the vmware overlay. I appreciate you help. Cheers, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmplayer not working after xorg upgrade
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 02/14/2011 04:27 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Nikos Chantziaras
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 02/13/2011 10:24 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Mark Knecht
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.
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.
>>>
>>> Are you using the ebuilds for vmware? (Latest versions are in the
>>> "vmware"
>>> overlay.) I run latest X.Org (1.9.4) and both workstation as well as
>>> player
>>> have no problems here.
>>
>> I switched to those from Pentoo today Nikos and that's when it started
>> working. However what I found so far didn't support the bundled
>> workstation/tools package, only the workstation so right now I don't
>> have the additions stuff installed. I'll be looking into that
>> tomorrow.
>
> It has a USE flags for those ("vmware-tools" flag) which pulls-in the
> app-emulation/vmware-tools package. That package itself has USE flags for
> which tools you want ("vmware_guest_linux", "vmware_guest_windows", etc.)
>
> The ISO images for the tools can then be found in the
> /opt/vmware/lib/vmware/isoimages directory.
>
Thanks! I hadn't found the flags for vmware-tools. I'm sure that will help.
The VMs are already running for the day so I'll look at doing the
emerge later this afternoon when work is done.
Again, a big, appreciative thank you for the info.
Cheers,
Mark
[gentoo-user] Re: vmplayer not working after xorg upgrade
On 02/14/2011 04:27 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 02/13/2011 10:24 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Mark Knecht
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.
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.
Are you using the ebuilds for vmware? (Latest versions are in the "vmware"
overlay.) I run latest X.Org (1.9.4) and both workstation as well as player
have no problems here.
I switched to those from Pentoo today Nikos and that's when it started
working. However what I found so far didn't support the bundled
workstation/tools package, only the workstation so right now I don't
have the additions stuff installed. I'll be looking into that
tomorrow.
It has a USE flags for those ("vmware-tools" flag) which pulls-in the
app-emulation/vmware-tools package. That package itself has USE flags
for which tools you want ("vmware_guest_linux", "vmware_guest_windows",
etc.)
The ISO images for the tools can then be found in the
/opt/vmware/lib/vmware/isoimages directory.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmplayer not working after xorg upgrade
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 02/13/2011 10:24 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Mark Knecht >> 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. >> >> >> 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. > > Are you using the ebuilds for vmware? (Latest versions are in the "vmware" > overlay.) I run latest X.Org (1.9.4) and both workstation as well as player > have no problems here. I switched to those from Pentoo today Nikos and that's when it started working. However what I found so far didn't support the bundled workstation/tools package, only the workstation so right now I don't have the additions stuff installed. I'll be looking into that tomorrow. Thanks! - Mark
[gentoo-user] Re: vmplayer not working after xorg upgrade
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Mark Knecht 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. > > >> >> Here is what i see: >> >> mark@c2stable ~ $ vmplayer >> Logging to /tmp/vmware-mark/setup-5266.log > >> mark@c2stable ~ $ > > > 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. 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
[gentoo-user] Re: vmplayer not working after xorg upgrade
On 02/13/2011 10:24 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Mark Knecht 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. 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. Are you using the ebuilds for vmware? (Latest versions are in the "vmware" overlay.) I run latest X.Org (1.9.4) and both workstation as well as player have no problems here.
[gentoo-user] Re: vmplayer not working after xorg upgrade
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Mark Knecht 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. > > Here is what i see: > > mark@c2stable ~ $ vmplayer > Logging to /tmp/vmware-mark/setup-5266.log > mark@c2stable ~ $ 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. Feb 13 12:15:36.266: player| Host codepage=UTF-8 encoding=UTF-8 Feb 13 12:15:36.266: player| HAL05LoadHALLibraries: dlopened libhal.so.1. Feb 13 12:15:36.266: player| HAL05LoadHalLibraries: dlopened libdbus-1.so.3. Feb 13 12:15:36.266: player| HAL05LoadGlibLibrary: dlopened libdbus-glib-1.so.2. Feb 13 12:15:36.268: player| HAL05ClassifyAllDevices: Cannot classify devices. DBus Error: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.15" (uid=1000 pid=5216 comm="/opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/bin/vmplayer) interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Manager" member="GetAllDevices" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination="org.freedesktop.Hal" (uid=0 pid=4228 comm="/usr/sbin/hald)). Feb 13 12:15:36.268: player| HAL05Init: HAL loaded succesfully, but not functioning, hald may not be running. Feb 13 12:15:36.268: player| HAL04LoadHALLibraries: Could not dlopen libhal.so.0. Feb 13 12:15:36.355: player| UUID: Unable to open /dev/mem: Permission denied Feb 13 12:15:36.355: player| UUID: Invalid gethostid routine. Value = 7F0100. Feb 13 12:15:36.370: player| HostDeviceInfo_FindHostCDROMs: enumerating IDE CDROMs Feb 13 12:15:36.370: player| HostDeviceInfo_FindHostCDROMs: IDE CDROM enumerating completed Feb 13 12:15:36.370: player| HostDeviceInfo_FindHostCDROMs: enumerating SCSI CDROMs Feb 13 12:15:36.388: player| HostDeviceInfo_FindHostCDROMs: SCSI CDROM enumerating completed Feb 13 12:15:36.407: player| HostDeviceInfo_FindHostParallelPorts: /proc/sys/dev/parport could not be explored. Unable to enumerate host parallel ports. Feb 13 12:15:36.414: player| SMBIOS: can't open /dev/mem: Insufficient permissions to access the file Feb 13 12:15:36.414: player| VmhsHostInfoPopulateSystem: Could not get information from smbios to populate VMDB. Feb 13 12:15:36.414: player| UUID: Unable to open /dev/mem: Permission denied Feb 13 12:15:36.414: player| HOSTINFO: Seeing Intel CPU, numCoresPerCPU 16 numThreadsPerCore 2. Feb 13 12:15:36.415: player| HOSTINFO: numPhysCPUs is 0, bumping to 1. Feb 13 12:15:36.415: player| HOSTINFO: This machine has 1 physical CPUS, 6 total cores, and 12 logical CPUs. Feb 13 12:15:36.548: player| CDS: Initializing CDS Client 1.0; product=player-linux version=3.1.2 workspace=/tmp/vmware-mark Feb 13 12:15:36.548: player| CDS error: Cannot locate VMIS, bootstrap file /etc/vmware-installer/bootstrap unavailable! Feb 13 12:15:36.548: player| CDS error: Couldn't populate VMIS install cache. Feb 13 12:15:36.548: player| CDS warning: Unable to initialize install cache; downloads may not work properly. Feb 13 12:15:36.549: player| Using log file /tmp/vmware-mark/player-5216.log Feb 13 12:15:36.556: player| Foundry Init: setting up global state (0 threads) Feb 13 12:15:36.556: player| Vix_InitializeGlobalState: vixLogLevel = 0 Feb 13 12:15:36.556: player| Vix_InitializeGlobalState: vixApiTraceLevel = 0 Feb 13 12:15:36.556: player| Vix_InitializeGlobalState: vixDebugPanicOnVixAssert = 0 Feb 13 12:15:36.556: player| Vix_InitializeGlobalState: vixLogRefcountOnFinalRelease = 0 Feb 13 12:15:36.569: player| VixHost_ConnectEx: version -1, hostType 3, hostName (null), hostPort 0, options 8707 Feb 13 12:15:36.570: player| Caught signal 11 -- pid 5216 Feb 13 12:15:36.570: player| SIGNAL: eip 0x7ff932ba2ce7 esp 0x7fff12e501c0 ebp 0x8cca40 Feb 13 12:15:36.570: player| SIGNAL: eax 0x10 ebx 0xdb63e0 ecx 0xdb63d0 edx 0x4 esi 0x0 edi 0xdb63e0 Feb 13 12:15:36.570: player| SIGNAL: stack 7FFF12E501C0 : 0x0010 0x 0x 0x Feb 13 12:15:36.570: player| SIGNAL: stack 7FFF12E501D0 : 0x00725e08 0x 0x008cca40 0x Feb 13 12:15:36.570: player| SIGNAL: stack 7FFF12E501E0 : 0x12e50400 0x7fff 0x31bfd27b 0x7ff9 Feb 13 12:15:36.570: player| SIGNAL: stack 7FFF12E501F0 : 0x 0x 0x00725e08 0x Feb 13 12:15:36.570: player| SIGNAL: stack 7FFF12E50200 : 0x008cca40 0x 0x31
