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
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
