vmplayer not working after xorg upgrade
 

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. The machine is _mostly_ stable. The machine is emerge -DuN
@world/revdep-rebuild -i clean at this time.

I tried upgrading to 2.6.37 a month ago but had this same problem so I
fell back to 2.6.36-gentoo-r6 which has been working. At the time I
was using an ATI card so I'm going to try 2.6.37 again after I post
this.

All Virtualbox VMs are running fine.

Can anyone suggest other things to look at? The only purpose this
compute server has in life is to run many VMs for me so this is a big
killer to my afternoon.

I did install mailx/smtp stuff this morning prior to checking these
VMs. I doubt that's involved, but maybe who knows...

Let me know any questions or requests for more info.

Thanks in advance,
Mark

Here is what i see:

mark@c2stable ~ $ vmplayer
Logging to /tmp/vmware-mark/setup-5266.log
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.36-gentoo-r6/misc/vmmon.ko
supported: external
license: GPL v2
description: VMware Virtual Machine Monitor.
author: VMware, Inc.
depends:
vermagic: 2.6.36-gentoo-r6 SMP preempt mod_unload modversions
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.36-gentoo-r6/misc/vmnet.ko
supported: external
license: GPL v2
description: VMware Virtual Networking Driver.
author: VMware, Inc.
depends:
vermagic: 2.6.36-gentoo-r6 SMP preempt mod_unload modversions
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.36-gentoo-r6/misc/vmblock.ko
supported: external
version: 1.1.2.0
license: GPL v2
description: VMware Blocking File System
author: VMware, Inc.
srcversion: 400149ED038D22A87322D56
depends:
vermagic: 2.6.36-gentoo-r6 SMP preempt mod_unload modversions
parm: root:The directory the file system redirects to. (charp)
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.36-gentoo-r6/misc/vmci.ko
supported: external
license: GPL v2
description: VMware Virtual Machine Communication Interface (VMCI).
author: VMware, Inc.
depends:
vermagic: 2.6.36-gentoo-r6 SMP preempt mod_unload modversions
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.36-gentoo-r6/misc/vsock.ko
supported: external
license: GPL v2
version: 1.0.0.0
description: VMware Virtual Socket Family
author: VMware, Inc.
srcversion: 19B3B9DE37C42158B0DC539
depends: vmci
vermagic: 2.6.36-gentoo-r6 SMP preempt mod_unload modversions
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.36-gentoo-r6/misc/vmmon.ko
supported: external
license: GPL v2
description: VMware Virtual Machine Monitor.
author: VMware, Inc.
depends:
vermagic: 2.6.36-gentoo-r6 SMP preempt mod_unload modversions
mark@c2stable ~ $

The kernel is gentoo-sources-2.6.36-r6

mark@c2stable ~ $ uname -a
Linux c2stable 2.6.36-gentoo-r6 #29 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jan 22 07:39:35
PST 2011 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU X 980 @ 3.33GHz GenuineIntel
GNU/Linux
mark@c2stable ~ $

I tried a modules-rebuild -X rebuild but that didn't fix anything.
Here's the list of what get's rebuilt:
(NOTE: For non-module-rebuild users the -X tells it to emerge the
latest rev, not the values shown below)

c2stable ~ # module-rebuild list
** Packages which I will emerge are:
=x11-base/xorg-drivers-1.7
=x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.3.2
=x11-drivers/xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.2
=x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard-1.4.0
=x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse-1.5.0
=x11-drivers/xf86-video-vmware-11.0.1
=media-libs/mesa-7.8.1
=x11-drivers/xf86-input-virtualbox-3.2.10-r1
=x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa-2.3.0
=x11-libs/libdrm-2.4.23
=app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-4.0.2
=app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.28-r1
=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-270.18
c2stable ~ #

c2stable ~ # cat /etc/make.conf
# Please consult /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example for a more
# detailed example.
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe"
#Safe CFlags for the Core-i7 (web info) saved for reference
#CFLAGS="-march=core2 -msse4 -mcx16 -msahf -O2 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
# WARNING: Changing your CHOST is not something that should be done lightly.
# Please consult http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml before changing.
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
# These are the USE flags that were used in addition to what is provided by the
# profile used for building.
#FEATURES="buildpkg parallel-fetch userfetch"
USE="acpi nptl nptlonly -ipv6 fortran unicode hal dbus X -bluetooth
-esound -timidity -cups -java -gnome gstreamer jpeg jpeg2k kde qt4
qt3support -arts -eds png policykit xvmc"
MAKEOPTS="-j9"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ "
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y"
INPUT_DEVICES="evdev mouse keyboard"
VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev nvidia vesa vmware"
#VIDEO_CARDS="radeon fbdev vesa"
ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel"
LINGUAS="en"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="dlj-1.1 PUEL AdobeFlash-10.1"

source /var/lib/layman/make.conf

# If you have layman installed, this line must be below the layman
make.conf line
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="${PORTDIR_OVERLAY} /usr/local/portage/"

c2stable ~ #

c2stable ~ # lsmod
Module Size Used by
vmnet 30852 13
vmblock 9883 1
vsock 33794 0
vmci 46073 1 vsock
vmmon 64450 0
ipv6 211146 32
vboxnetadp 3948 0
vboxnetflt 14445 0
vboxdrv 1737903 2 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt
snd_hda_codec_nvhdmi 12325 4
nvidia 10408743 28
snd_hda_codec_analog 64664 1
snd_hda_intel 18536 3
snd_hda_codec 55527 3
snd_hda_codec_nvhdmi,snd_hda_codec_analog,snd_hda_ intel
i2c_i801 6596 0
snd_pcm 60107 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer 15597 1 snd_pcm
snd 38675 11
snd_hda_codec_analog,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,s nd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 840 1 snd
sky2 38718 0
snd_page_alloc 5961 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
rtc_cmos 8078 0
agpgart 23806 1 nvidia
c2stable ~ #

vmplayer not working after xorg upgrade
 

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.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.
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 : 0x00000010
0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
Feb 13 12:15:36.570: player| SIGNAL: stack 7FFF12E501D0 : 0x00725e08
0x00000000 0x008cca40 0x00000000
Feb 13 12:15:36.570: player| SIGNAL: stack 7FFF12E501E0 : 0x12e50400
0x00007fff 0x31bfd27b 0x00007ff9
Feb 13 12:15:36.570: player| SIGNAL: stack 7FFF12E501F0 : 0x00000000
0x00000000 0x00725e08 0x00000000
Feb 13 12:15:36.570: player| SIGNAL: stack 7FFF12E50200 : 0x008cca40
0x00000000 0x31c08aa2 0x00007ff9
Feb 13 12:15:36.570: player| SIGNAL: stack 7FFF12E50210 : 0x008cca40
0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
Feb 13 12:15:36.570: player| SIGNAL: stack 7FFF12E50220 : 0x00000001
0x00000000 0x12e502f0 0x00007fff
Feb 13 12:15:36.570: player| SIGNAL: stack 7FFF12E50230 : 0x00db70b8
0x00000000 0x31bfd63b 0x00007ff9
Feb 13 12:15:36.570: player| Backtrace:
Feb 13 12:15:36.580: player| Backtrace[0] 00007fff12e4fc00
rip=00007ff92d20349c rbx=0000000000000000 rbp=00007ff92d203290
r12=000000000000000b r13=000000000000000b r14=00007ff932dda100
r15=00007fff12e50650
Feb 13 12:15:36.580: player| Backtrace[1] 00007fff12e4fc20
rip=00007ff92d2fb753 rbx=0000000000000080 rbp=00007fff12e4fd80
r12=000000000000000b r13=000000000000000b r14=00007ff932dda100
r15=00007fff12e50650
Feb 13 12:15:36.580: player| Backtrace[2] 00007fff12e4fd80
rip=00007ff938900010 rbx=0000000000db63e0 rbp=00000000008cca40
r12=0000000000000090 r13=00007fff12e508d8 r14=00007ff932dda140
r15=00007fff12e50650
Feb 13 12:15:36.580: player| Backtrace[3] 00007fff12e501c0
rip=00007ff932ba2ce7 rbx=0000000000db63e0 rbp=00000000008cca40
r12=0000000000000090 r13=00007fff12e508d8 r14=00007ff932dda140
r15=00007fff12e50650
Feb 13 12:15:36.580: player| Backtrace[4] 00007fff12e501f0
rip=00007ff931bfd27b rbx=0000000000725e08 rbp=00000000008cca40
r12=00007fff12e50400 r13=00007fff12e508d8 r14=00007ff932dda140
r15=00007fff12e50650
Feb 13 12:15:36.580: player| Backtrace[5] 00007fff12e50210
rip=00007ff931c08aa2 rbx=0000000000725e08 rbp=00000000008cca40
r12=00007fff12e50400 r13=00007fff12e508d8 r14=00007ff932dda140
r15=00007fff12e50650
Feb 13 12:15:36.580: player| Backtrace[6] 00007fff12e50240
rip=00007ff931bfd63b rbx=00007fff12e502f0 rbp=0000000000db70b8
r12=00007fff12e50400 r13=00007fff12e508d8 r14=00007ff932dda140
r15=00007fff12e50650
Feb 13 12:15:36.589: player| Backtrace[7] 00007fff12e50260
rip=00007ff92b0025f5 rbx=00007fff12e50300 rbp=0000000000db70b8
r12=00007fff12e50400 r13=00007fff12e508d8 r14=00007ff932dda140
r15=00007fff12e50650
Feb 13 12:15:36.589: player| Backtrace[8] 00007fff12e503e0
rip=00007ff92b002d30 rbx=00007fff12e50460 rbp=0000000000db70b8
r12=00007fff12e50400 r13=00007fff12e508d8 r14=00007ff932dda140
r15=00007fff12e50650
Feb 13 12:15:36.590: player| Backtrace[9] 00007fff12e504e0
rip=00007ff92b047560 rbx=00007fff12e50830 rbp=00007fff12e50830
r12=00007fff12e50520 r13=00007fff12e50660 r14=00007fff12e50520
r15=00007fff12e50650
Feb 13 12:15:36.590: player| Backtrace[10] 00007fff12e50510
rip=00007ff92b03370f rbx=00007fff12e50830 rbp=0000000000db6738
r12=00007ff92b047430 r13=00007fff12e50660 r14=00007fff12e50520
r15=00007fff12e50650
Feb 13 12:15:36.607: player| Backtrace[11] 00007fff12e50570
rip=00007ff92bd7e4df rbx=00007fff12e50650 rbp=0000000000db6c90
r12=00007fff12e50610 r13=00007fff12e50660 r14=00007fff12e505e0
r15=00007fff12e50590
Feb 13 12:15:36.607: player| Backtrace[12] 00007fff12e506d0
rip=00007ff92bd7e79f rbx=00007fff12e506e0 rbp=00007fff12e50b28
r12=00007fff12e50730 r13=00007fff12e50730 r14=00007fff12e50740
r15=0000000000000000
Feb 13 12:15:36.607: player| Backtrace[13] 00007fff12e50720
rip=00007ff92b03648b rbx=00007fff12e50b28 rbp=0000000000db6990
r12=00007ff92bd7e750 r13=00007fff12e50730 r14=00007fff12e50740
r15=0000000000000000
Feb 13 12:15:36.615: player| Backtrace[14] 00007fff12e507a0
rip=00007ff92fc4cbb6 rbx=0000000000db7990 rbp=0000000000db6930
r12=00000000008ca2c0 r13=00007fff12e50830 r14=0000000000db65e0
r15=0000000000000000
Feb 13 12:15:36.623: player| Backtrace[15] 00007fff12e507b0
rip=00007ff9316f4176 rbx=0000000000000000 rbp=0000000000db6930
r12=00000000008ca2c0 r13=00007fff12e50830 r14=0000000000db65e0
r15=0000000000000000
Feb 13 12:15:36.623: player| Backtrace[16] 00007fff12e50820
rip=00007ff92b01e344 rbx=0000000000000001 rbp=00000000006da1b0
r12=00007fff12e50e08 r13=00007fff12e50830 r14=0000000000000001
r15=0000000000000000
Feb 13 12:15:36.624: player| Backtrace[17] 00007fff12e50cc0
rip=00000000004521dd rbx=00000000006d8200 rbp=00000000006da1b0
r12=00007fff12e50e08 r13=00007fff12e50e18 r14=0000000000000001
r15=0000000000000000
Feb 13 12:15:36.624: player| Backtrace[18] 00007fff12e50d00
rip=000000000040c102 rbx=00007fff12e50e08 rbp=00007fff12e50e18
r12=000000000040bc60 r13=00007fff12e50e00 r14=0000000000000000
r15=0000000000000000
Feb 13 12:15:36.624: player| Backtrace[19] 00007fff12e50d30
rip=00007ff93839fbbd rbx=0000000000000000 rbp=0000000000000000
r12=000000000040bc60 r13=00007fff12e50e00 r14=0000000000000000
r15=0000000000000000
Feb 13 12:15:36.624: player| Backtrace[20] 00007fff12e50df0
rip=000000000040bc8a rbx=0000000000000000 rbp=0000000000000000
r12=000000000040bc60 r13=00007fff12e50e00 r14=0000000000000000
r15=0000000000000000
Feb 13 12:15:36.624: player| SymBacktrace[0] 00007fff12e4fc00
rip=00007ff92d20349c in function Util_BacktraceWithFunc in object
/opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/lib/libvmwarebase.so.0/libvmwarebase.so.0
loaded at 00007ff92cead000
Feb 13 12:15:36.624: player| SymBacktrace[1] 00007fff12e4fc20
rip=00007ff92d2fb753 in function (null) in object
/opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/lib/libvmwarebase.so.0/libvmwarebase.so.0
loaded at 00007ff92cead000
Feb 13 12:15:36.624: player| SymBacktrace[2] 00007fff12e4fd80
rip=00007ff938900010 in function (null) in object /lib/libpthread.so.0
loaded at 00007ff9388f1000
Feb 13 12:15:36.624: player| SymBacktrace[3] 00007fff12e501c0
rip=00007ff932ba2ce7 in function __cxa_allocate_exception in object
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.4/libstdc++.so.6 loaded at
00007ff932ada000
Feb 13 12:15:36.624: player| SymBacktrace[4] 00007fff12e501f0
rip=00007ff931bfd27b in function
_ZN4Glib9FileError10throw_funcEP7_GError in object
/usr/lib/libglibmm-2.4.so.1 loaded at 00007ff931bce000
Feb 13 12:15:36.624: player| SymBacktrace[5] 00007fff12e50210
rip=00007ff931c08aa2 in function
_ZN4Glib5Error15throw_exceptionEP7_GError in object
/usr/lib/libglibmm-2.4.so.1 loaded at 00007ff931bce000
Feb 13 12:15:36.624: player| SymBacktrace[6] 00007fff12e50240
rip=00007ff931bfd63b in function _ZN4Glib3DirC1ERKSs in object
/usr/lib/libglibmm-2.4.so.1 loaded at 00007ff931bce000
Feb 13 12:15:36.624: player| SymBacktrace[7] 00007fff12e50260
rip=00007ff92b0025f5 in function
_ZN6player9extension7Manager17LoadFromDirectoryERK N3utf6stringE in
object /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/lib/libvmplayer.so/libvmplayer.so
loaded at 00007ff92ae8e000
Feb 13 12:15:36.624: player| SymBacktrace[8] 00007fff12e503e0
rip=00007ff92b002d30 in function
_ZN6player9extension7Manager7LoadAllEv in object
/opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/lib/libvmplayer.so/libvmplayer.so
loaded at 00007ff92ae8e000
Feb 13 12:15:36.624: player| SymBacktrace[9] 00007fff12e504e0
rip=00007ff92b047560 in function
_ZN6player6Player18SetUpWindowGeneralEN4sigc4slotI vbRKN3cui5ErrorENS1_3nilES7_S7_S7_S7_EENS2_IvS7_S7 _S7_S7_S7_S7_S7_EE
in object /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/lib/libvmplayer.so/libvmplayer.so
loaded at 00007ff92ae8e000
Feb 13 12:15:36.624: player| SymBacktrace[10] 00007fff12e50510
rip=00007ff92b03370f in function
_ZN4sigc8internal10slot_call2INS_18bound_mem_funct or2IvN6player6PlayerENS_4slotIvbRKN3cui5ErrorENS_3 nilESA_SA_SA_SA_EENS5_IvSA_SA_SA_SA_SA_SA_SA_EEEEv SB_SC_E7call_itEPNS0_8slot_repERKSB_RKSC_
in object /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/lib/libvmplayer.so/libvmplayer.so
loaded at 00007ff92ae8e000
Feb 13 12:15:36.625: player| SymBacktrace[11] 00007fff12e50570
rip=00007ff92bd7e4df in function
_ZN3cui9SlotChain8NextSlotEN4sigc4slotIvbRKNS_5Err orENS1_3nilES6_S6_S6_S6_EENS2_IvS6_S6_S6_S6_S6_S6_ S6_EE
in object /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/lib/libvmwareui.so.0/libvmwareui.so.0
loaded at 00007ff92b30a000
Feb 13 12:15:36.625: player| SymBacktrace[12] 00007fff12e506d0
rip=00007ff92bd7e79f in function
_ZN3cui9SlotChain5StartEN4sigc4slotIvbRKNS_5ErrorE NS1_3nilES6_S6_S6_S6_EENS2_IvS6_S6_S6_S6_S6_S6_S6_ EE
in object /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/lib/libvmwareui.so.0/libvmwareui.so.0
loaded at 00007ff92b30a000
Feb 13 12:15:36.625: player| SymBacktrace[13] 00007fff12e50720
rip=00007ff92b03648b in function
_ZN4sigc8internal10slot_call0INS_12bind_functorILi n1ENS_18bound_mem_functor2IvN3cui9SlotChainENS_4sl otIvbRKNS4_5ErrorENS_3nilESA_SA_SA_SA_EENS6_IvSA_S A_SA_SA_SA_SA_SA_EEEENS_12hide_functorILin1ENSE_IL in1ENS_16pointer_functor0IvEEEEEESC_SA_SA_SA_SA_SA _EEvE7call_itEPNS0_8slot_repE
in object /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/lib/libvmplayer.so/libvmplayer.so
loaded at 00007ff92ae8e000
Feb 13 12:15:36.626: player| SymBacktrace[14] 00007fff12e507a0
rip=00007ff92fc4cbb6 in function _ZN3Gtk6RunSig12gtk_callbackEPv in
object /usr/lib/libgtkmm-2.4.so.1 loaded at 00007ff92f972000
Feb 13 12:15:36.626: player| SymBacktrace[15] 00007fff12e507b0
rip=00007ff9316f4176 in function gtk_main in object
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 loaded at 00007ff9315bc000
Feb 13 12:15:36.626: player| SymBacktrace[16] 00007fff12e50820
rip=00007ff92b01e344 in function main in object
/opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/lib/libvmplayer.so/libvmplayer.so
loaded at 00007ff92ae8e000
Feb 13 12:15:36.626: player| SymBacktrace[17] 00007fff12e50cc0
rip=00000000004521dd in function (null) in object
/opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/bin/vmplayer loaded at
0000000000400000
Feb 13 12:15:36.626: player| SymBacktrace[18] 00007fff12e50d00
rip=000000000040c102 in function (null) in object
/opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/bin/vmplayer loaded at
0000000000400000
Feb 13 12:15:36.626: player| SymBacktrace[19] 00007fff12e50d30
rip=00007ff93839fbbd in function __libc_start_main in object
/lib/libc.so.6 loaded at 00007ff938381000
Feb 13 12:15:36.626: player| SymBacktrace[20] 00007fff12e50df0
rip=000000000040bc8a in function (null) in object
/opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/bin/vmplayer loaded at
0000000000400000
Feb 13 12:15:36.627: player| Your core dump size limit is 0 kb.
Feb 13 12:15:36.627: player| Attempting to dump core ...
mark@c2stable ~ $

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<markknecht@gmail.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.



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.

vmplayer not working after xorg upgrade
 

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.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

vmplayer not working after xorg upgrade
 

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> wrote:
> On 02/13/2011 10:24 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Mark Knecht<markknecht@gmail.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.
>>
>>
>> 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

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<realnc@arcor.de> wrote:

On 02/13/2011 10:24 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:


On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Mark Knecht<markknecht@gmail.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.



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.

vmplayer not working after xorg upgrade
 

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> wrote:
> On 02/14/2011 04:27 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@arcor.de>
>> *wrote:
>>>
>>> On 02/13/2011 10:24 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Mark Knecht<markknecht@gmail.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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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

vmplayer not working after xorg upgrade
 

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> wrote:
> On 02/13/2011 10:24 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Mark Knecht<markknecht@gmail.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.
>>
>>
>> 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