Re: [gentoo-user] Problems configuring VMWare
On 5/28/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, all I had to do is remove /etc/vmware/not_configured and all isgolden.Thanks, that helped. Now I can run vmware as root.But attempting to run it as myself, I get: (vmware:7809): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Can not open pixbuf loader module file '/opt/vmware/workstation/lib/libconf/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders'I've added myselft to the vmware-group, but gdk-pixbuf.loaders is:# ls -la /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/libconf/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders -rw--- 1 root root 3324 2006-05-29 01:51 /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/libconf/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loadersSo something here seems to be all wrong.I probably should take the hint and just buy a new machine instead of playing with VMWare. :*) M.
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems configuring VMWare
Martin Larsson wrote: On 5/28/06, *JimD* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, all I had to do is remove /etc/vmware/not_configured and all is golden. Thanks, that helped. Now I can run vmware as root. But attempting to run it as myself, I get: (vmware:7809): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Can not open pixbuf loader module file '/opt/vmware/workstation/lib/libconf/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders' I've added myselft to the vmware-group, but gdk-pixbuf.loaders is: # ls -la /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/libconf/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders -rw--- 1 root root 3324 2006-05-29 01:51 /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/libconf/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders So something here seems to be all wrong. I probably should take the hint and just buy a new machine instead of playing with VMWare. :*) M. Don't worry about that warning, I get it every time I use VMware and have not had any issues. I run VMware Mon-Fri for a good 8 hours. I use it for work. Maybe I will look into the gdk-pixbuf.loaders issue if I find some time. Though as I stated, I have not had one issue because of it, I even played a few smaller games under VMware like Heroes of Might and Magic III. Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There's no place like 127.0.0.1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems configuring VMWare
On 5/29/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't worry about that warning, I get it every time I use VMware and have not had any issues. I run VMware Mon-Fri for a good 8 hours. I use it for work. Sounds like a good idea, except, vmware doesn't start. All I get is a screenfull of 'gdk-pixbuf.loaders not accessible'-messages. :*) Remy Blank wrote: has the following permissions: -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 3244 mai 20 08:49 gdk-pixbuf.loaders So you might just want to try and chmod it to 664. Trying that gave me: (null): file ../../pango-1.4.1/pango/shape.c: line 75 (pango_shape): assertion failed: (glyphs-num_glyphs 0) (process:9070): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL (recursed) **: file ../../glib-2.4.8/gobject/gobject.c: line 1561 (g_object_ref): assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed aborting... So. I'll be running as root, I guess. :*) M. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems configuring VMWare
On 5/24/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well yes, he needs a -rsomething, I've installed vmware-workstation-5.5.1.19175-r3. But it seemed I had some old versions of vmware-files in various locations. So I cleaned that up, and now I can configure. But when I attempt to actually *run* it, I get: vmware is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured for this system. To (re-)configure it, invoke the following command: /opt/vmware/workstation/bin/vmware-config.pl. Running vmware-config.pl again just brings me back to that same error. M. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems configuring VMWare
Martin Larsson wrote: On 5/24/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well yes, he needs a -rsomething, I've installed vmware-workstation-5.5.1.19175-r3. But it seemed I had some old versions of vmware-files in various locations. So I cleaned that up, and now I can configure. But when I attempt to actually *run* it, I get: vmware is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured for this system. To (re-)configure it, invoke the following command: /opt/vmware/workstation/bin/vmware-config.pl. Running vmware-config.pl again just brings me back to that same error. M. I get this too. It appears to be a bug in the startup script. If I run /etc/init.d/vmware start and everything comes up. If I run the startup script again I get a some failed messages because vmware was already started. The startup script places an empty file in /etc/vmware named not_configured if the startup script fails for any reason. Being already started doesn't seem like a good reason to me. Anyway, all I had to do is remove /etc/vmware/not_configured and all is golden. Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There's no place like 127.0.0.1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems configuring VMWare
On 5/23/06, Ryan Tandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # uname -r # ls -l /usr/src/linux Make sure the /usr/src/linux symlink points to the sources for the kernel you're currently running. They seem to be: martin # uname -r 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 martin # ls -l /usr/src/linux lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2006-05-14 13:23 /usr/src/linux - linux-2.6.16-gentoo-r7 M. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems configuring VMWare
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 10:11:44PM +0200, Martin Larsson wrote: I've installed vmware, but when I run vmware-config.pl, I get the following strange error message: What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] The kernel defined by this directory of header files does not have the same address space size as your running kernel. Does anybody know what that means? You might see this with VMSPLIT_3G_OPT. If this is the case, you might be able to find a 1 gig lowmem patch for vmware-config.pl. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems configuring VMWare
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 10:47:09PM +0200, Martin Larsson wrote:
On 5/23/06, Ryan Tandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
# uname -r
# ls -l /usr/src/linux
Make sure the /usr/src/linux symlink points to the sources for the
kernel you're currently running.
They seem to be:
martin # uname -r
2.6.16-gentoo-r7
martin # ls -l /usr/src/linux
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2006-05-14 13:23 /usr/src/linux -
linux-2.6.16-gentoo-r7
This is a bug with newer kernels. I fixed it by editing the
vmware-config.pl script and basically commenting out the section around
that error message.
# vi `which vmware-config.pl`
Then around line 1979 you'll see this:
if ($header_page_offset =~ /[0-9a-fA-F]{8,}/) {
## We found a valid page offset
#if (defined($gSystem{'page_offset'}) and
#not (lc($header_page_offset) eq lc($gSystem{'page_offset'}))) {
# if ($source eq 'user') {
#print wrap('The kernel defined by this directory of header files does '
# . 'not have the same address space size as your running '
# . 'kernel.' . \n\n, 0);
# }
# return '';
#}
}
I inserted the '#' at the beginning of the lines to basically ignore
this check. I haven't had any problems with vmware when it's built.
Alan
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Re: [gentoo-user] Problems configuring VMWare
The official way to get around this is to install the latest VMWare any-any update. Google should find it easily.-- Jason Weisberger[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems configuring VMWare
On 5/23/06, Jason Weisberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard, I think the brand new ebuild within the last week or so will have it, but if he installed the ebuild without any revisions, it will not contain the correct any-any update. Well yes, he needs a -rsomething, but nothing was changed in the last week or so. The 101 patch was released Apr 3, and the ebuilds that include it were marked stable over one month ago: From /usr/portage/app-emulation/vmware-workstation/ChangeLog: 17 Apr 2006; Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] vmware-workstation-3.2.1.2242-r10.ebuild, vmware-workstation-4.5.3.19414-r3.ebuild, vmware-workstation-5.5.1.19175-r3.ebuild: Marking stable on amd64/x86 (where applicable) to force users to upgrade to the new update101 patch, which fixes compilation on several kernels. Cheers, -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
