Bug#434302: [Vmware-package-maintainers] Bug#434302: vmware-package: Install vmware-server-console package doesn't load on i386
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Edmonds wrote: Does installing vmware server console from VMware's tarball work at all? I haven't tried yet, and I'm a little reluctant to do so. And, is it possible to use etch in your situation? VMware products tend to have good compatibility with released Linux distributions. It's possible for some people. Unfortunately the only workstation on my desk with a monitor is running sid. That said, it's not critical that I get it working. Hm, after installing gtk2-engines from unstable on a sid/amd64 machine and setting my theme to Clearlooks, I can indeed reproduce the error: unexpected character `@', expected string constant message, but the server console GUI starts up fine (although with a default theme). But, your experience is that the unexpected character `@' message always results in a failure to launch? After further testing, I concur that the gtkrc error message is not the cause of my troubles. Even if I fix that error, vmware-server-console fails to launch. It just exits silently with a return code of 0. I'm inclined to consider this an upstream bug (since I see VMTN forum posts from ubuntu users experiencing difficulty with gtk 2.10) and drop the severity to normal since I don't believe vmware-package is at fault. A workaround could certainly be placed in vmware-package if one were possible, however. Fair enough. I'll keep poking at it and see if I can narrow down the root cause of the issue. I suspect it's some sort of funky interaction between the bundled and system libs. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGpEeL4oawkrbYo/kRAsXDAJ9gUSe3NHHKzsMDY1oUe7nB0sEWdwCffbKU 9D4yZ3v+/FYm9nvZRRsuOLk= =7g0E -END PGP SIGNATURE- Swinburne University of Technology CRICOS Provider Code: 00111D NOTICE This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and intended only for the use of the addressee. They may contain information that is privileged or protected by copyright. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution, printing, copying or use is strictly prohibited. The University does not warrant that this e-mail and any attachments are secure and there is also a risk that it may be corrupted in transmission. It is your responsibility to check any attachments for viruses or defects before opening them. If you have received this transmission in error, please contact us on +61 3 9214 8000 and delete it immediately from your system. We do not accept liability in connection with computer virus, data corruption, delay, interruption, unauthorised access or unauthorised amendment. Please consider the environment before printing this email. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#434302: [Vmware-package-maintainers] Bug#434302: vmware-package: Install vmware-server-console package doesn't load on i386
James Healy wrote: After further testing, I concur that the gtkrc error message is not the cause of my troubles. Even if I fix that error, vmware-server-console fails to launch. It just exits silently with a return code of 0. Could you send the full output of strace -f vmware-server-console 21 in this case? -- Robert Edmonds [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#434302: [Vmware-package-maintainers] Bug#434302: vmware-package: Install vmware-server-console package doesn't load on i386
James Healy wrote: Robert Edmonds wrote: Could you send the full output of strace -f vmware-server-console 21 in this case? attached. Thanks. Based on the output, could you also send the log files that vmware generates (I believe they're written somewhere in /tmp), and try to collect and send a core file by invoking ulimit -c unlimited before vmware-server-console? I suspect the problem is HAL or DBUS related. -- Robert Edmonds [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#434302: [Vmware-package-maintainers] Bug#434302: vmware-package: Install vmware-server-console package doesn't load on i386
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Edmonds wrote: Thanks. Based on the output, could you also send the log files that vmware generates (I believe they're written somewhere in /tmp), and try to collect and send a core file by invoking ulimit -c unlimited before vmware-server-console? I suspect the problem is HAL or DBUS related. Spot on. The log file in /tmp indicates a HAL issue. http://gir.deefa.com/ui-5189.log http://gir.deefa.com/vmware-console.core James -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGpUin4oawkrbYo/kRAodWAJwOaJF1B2slmO0xSCOF43WJgu69rQCffOIl W31XqzrA6yMy/ofX7dvEtrs= =VW4z -END PGP SIGNATURE- Swinburne University of Technology CRICOS Provider Code: 00111D NOTICE This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and intended only for the use of the addressee. They may contain information that is privileged or protected by copyright. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution, printing, copying or use is strictly prohibited. The University does not warrant that this e-mail and any attachments are secure and there is also a risk that it may be corrupted in transmission. It is your responsibility to check any attachments for viruses or defects before opening them. If you have received this transmission in error, please contact us on +61 3 9214 8000 and delete it immediately from your system. We do not accept liability in connection with computer virus, data corruption, delay, interruption, unauthorised access or unauthorised amendment. Please consider the environment before printing this email. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#434302: [Vmware-package-maintainers] Bug#434302: vmware-package: Install vmware-server-console package doesn't load on i386
James Healy wrote: Package: vmware-package Version: 0.9 Severity: important When attempting to run vmware-server-console on my i386 machine, I get the following error. The machine in question is *not* the one running vmware-server - vmware-server-console is the only vmware package that is installed (besides vmware-package). Hi, James: The i386 machine you've submitted the bug on is running unstable; what are you running on the amd64 host? Is the behavior any different if you invoke vmware-server-console as, VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=force vmware-server-console ? -- Robert Edmonds [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#434302: [Vmware-package-maintainers] Bug#434302: vmware-package: Install vmware-server-console package doesn't load on i386
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The i386 machine you've submitted the bug on is running unstable; what are you running on the amd64 host? Stable, although I was naughty and changed sources.list to sid just long enough to grab vmware-package (and 2-3 associated upgrades due to dependencies). Is the behavior any different if you invoke vmware-server-console as, VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=force vmware-server-console [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=force vmware-server-console /usr/share/themes/Clearlooks/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:34: error: unexpected character `@', expected string constant I don't get the warnings about libpng12, but the gtk error still appears. James -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGpBGE4oawkrbYo/kRAhkuAJ98fyKhyEssSXf1TitHbrq1PH9qpACgukp+ eq4W52BwdsYfXru5kdounWc= =Y3kE -END PGP SIGNATURE- Swinburne University of Technology CRICOS Provider Code: 00111D NOTICE This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and intended only for the use of the addressee. They may contain information that is privileged or protected by copyright. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution, printing, copying or use is strictly prohibited. The University does not warrant that this e-mail and any attachments are secure and there is also a risk that it may be corrupted in transmission. It is your responsibility to check any attachments for viruses or defects before opening them. If you have received this transmission in error, please contact us on +61 3 9214 8000 and delete it immediately from your system. We do not accept liability in connection with computer virus, data corruption, delay, interruption, unauthorised access or unauthorised amendment. Please consider the environment before printing this email. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#434302: [Vmware-package-maintainers] Bug#434302: vmware-package: Install vmware-server-console package doesn't load on i386
James Healy wrote: The i386 machine you've submitted the bug on is running unstable; what are you running on the amd64 host? Stable, although I was naughty and changed sources.list to sid just long enough to grab vmware-package (and 2-3 associated upgrades due to dependencies). Is the behavior any different if you invoke vmware-server-console as, VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=force vmware-server-console [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=force vmware-server-console /usr/share/themes/Clearlooks/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:34: error: unexpected character `@', expected string constant I don't get the warnings about libpng12, but the gtk error still appears. James /usr/share/themes/Clearlooks/gtk-2.0/gtkrc is located in the gtk2-engines package, whose description says [...] The package includes the following engines: * Clearlooks, the default GNOME theme, based on Bluecurve; [...] I take it you're running under GNOME? Have you tried running under an alternate X environment, or with another theme? However, I've just installed the gtk2-engines package on my etch/i386 workstation and set my theme to Clearlooks, and vmware-server-console runs fine with the new theme. What version of gtk2-engines do you have installed and what is on line 34 of /usr/share/themes/Clearlooks/gtk-2.0/gtkrc? My copy (from version 1:2.8.2-1) doesn't have a @ anywhere in the file. -- Robert Edmonds [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#434302: [Vmware-package-maintainers] Bug#434302: vmware-package: Install vmware-server-console package doesn't load on i386
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Edmonds wrote: /usr/share/themes/Clearlooks/gtk-2.0/gtkrc is located in the gtk2-engines package, whose description says [...] The package includes the following engines: * Clearlooks, the default GNOME theme, based on Bluecurve; [...] I take it you're running under GNOME? Have you tried running under an alternate X environment, or with another theme? Yep, I'm running gnome. With a different theme the same error occurs, but with the path pointing to the relevant theme's gtkrc. Under KDE it silently fails to launch. However, I've just installed the gtk2-engines package on my etch/i386 workstation and set my theme to Clearlooks, and vmware-server-console runs fine with the new theme. What version of gtk2-engines do you have installed and what is on line 34 of /usr/share/themes/Clearlooks/gtk-2.0/gtkrc? My copy (from version 1:2.8.2-1) doesn't have a @ anywhere in the file. gtk2-engines 1:2.10.2-2 (the latest from unstable). Interestingly, on my lenny system gtk2-engines is at version 1:2.10.2-1, and vmware-server-console runs fine. The lenny system is headless and doesn't run X, so I'm running it via X forwarding. On my sid system, if I run VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=no vmware-server-console the gtkrc error goes away (although it silently fails to launch still), leading me to think that the gtkrc error is caused by vmware-server-console attempting to read my system's gtkrc theme files with it's older bundled version of the gtk libraries? The failing to launch might be a separate issue. James -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGpCvS4oawkrbYo/kRAj2vAJ48fa314Dtp0klKWdFWxyvbLBTurQCffk6A LL+KlX+Za4Tb47It2kNkiQY= =h3uJ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Swinburne University of Technology CRICOS Provider Code: 00111D NOTICE This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and intended only for the use of the addressee. They may contain information that is privileged or protected by copyright. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution, printing, copying or use is strictly prohibited. The University does not warrant that this e-mail and any attachments are secure and there is also a risk that it may be corrupted in transmission. It is your responsibility to check any attachments for viruses or defects before opening them. If you have received this transmission in error, please contact us on +61 3 9214 8000 and delete it immediately from your system. We do not accept liability in connection with computer virus, data corruption, delay, interruption, unauthorised access or unauthorised amendment. Please consider the environment before printing this email. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#434302: [Vmware-package-maintainers] Bug#434302: vmware-package: Install vmware-server-console package doesn't load on i386
James Healy wrote: Yep, I'm running gnome. With a different theme the same error occurs, but with the path pointing to the relevant theme's gtkrc. Under KDE it silently fails to launch. What happens if you run it under an X environment that is not KDE or GNOME? What happens if you create a file in your home directory named .gtkrc-2.0, and put this line in it: gtk-theme-name = Default Does installing vmware server console from VMware's tarball work at all? And, is it possible to use etch in your situation? VMware products tend to have good compatibility with released Linux distributions. On my sid system, if I run VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=no vmware-server-console the gtkrc error goes away (although it silently fails to launch still), leading me to think that the gtkrc error is caused by vmware-server-console attempting to read my system's gtkrc theme files with it's older bundled version of the gtk libraries? The failing to launch might be a separate issue. Hm, after installing gtk2-engines from unstable on a sid/amd64 machine and setting my theme to Clearlooks, I can indeed reproduce the error: unexpected character `@', expected string constant message, but the server console GUI starts up fine (although with a default theme). But, your experience is that the unexpected character `@' message always results in a failure to launch? I'm inclined to consider this an upstream bug (since I see VMTN forum posts from ubuntu users experiencing difficulty with gtk 2.10) and drop the severity to normal since I don't believe vmware-package is at fault. A workaround could certainly be placed in vmware-package if one were possible, however. -- Robert Edmonds [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
