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jtyranski

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Registered: 2013-06-05

Posts: 2

VMPlayer Installation problem

I followed the Arch Wiki for installing VMPlayer (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VM … stallation) however as soon as I go to install the VMware-Player-6.0.3-1895310.x86_64.bundle, the installation will abort due to a core dump in the installation.  Have not found any way around this, so any ideas?

# sh VMware-Player-6.0.3-1895310.x86_64.bundle 
Extracting VMware Installer...done.

(vmware-installer.py:5266): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita",

(vmware-installer.py:5266): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita",
/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:1137: error: unexpected identifier 'direction', expected character '}'
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module": libpk-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Attempt to unlock mutex that was not locked
/tmp/vmis.LOApdM/install/vmware-installer/vmware-installer: line 56:  5266 Aborted                 (core dumped) VMWARE_INSTALLER="$VMWARE_INSTALLER" VMISPYVERSION="$VMISPYVERSION" "$VMWARE_INSTALLER"/vmis-launcher "$VMWARE_INSTALLER"/vmware-installer.py "$@"

dskowronski

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Registered: 2014-06-22

Posts: 1

Re: VMPlayer Installation problem

Same on VMware-Workstation-Full-10.0.0-1295980.x86_64 - it's bug in GTK (GLib ≥ 2.41) - https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/commi … 5bc292f606

Temporary solution is to to downgrade glib2 to 2.40 (package is still on some mirrors eg. http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/arch … pkg.tar.xz).

EDIT: Or you can just use --console

Last edited by dskowronski (2014-10-08 18:13:23)