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