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AndyD

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Registered: 2014-11-25

Posts: 13

vmware player won't install with (silent) "no distro file found" Error

I've got a  problem similar to this one:

At first, it seems to be a gtk problem:

$ sudo sh VMware-Player-7.1.0-2496824.x86_64.bundle 
Extracting VMware Installer...done.
/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:1163: error: unexpected identifier `direction', expected character `}'
$

but using --console just extracts the bundle, and nothing else happens:

$ sudo sh VMware-Player-7.1.0-2496824.x86_64.bundle --console
Extracting VMware Installer...done.
$

The log for the installation under /tmp/vmware-root/ contains lots of "not found"s, and the two HostInfo-Errors:

2015-06-15T11:27:46.496+02:00| vthread-4| I120: Log for VMware Workstation pid=3272 version=11.0.0 build=build-2417236 option=Release
2015-06-15T11:27:46.496+02:00| vthread-4| I120: The process is 64-bit.
2015-06-15T11:27:46.496+02:00| vthread-4| I120: Host codepage=UTF-8 encoding=UTF-8
2015-06-15T11:27:46.496+02:00| vthread-4| I120: Host is unknown
2015-06-15T11:27:46.496+02:00| vthread-4| I120: DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/usr/lib/vmware/settings": No such file or directory.
2015-06-15T11:27:46.496+02:00| vthread-4| I120: Msg_Reset:
2015-06-15T11:27:46.496+02:00| vthread-4| I120: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "/usr/lib/vmware/settings": No such file or directory.
2015-06-15T11:27:46.496+02:00| vthread-4| I120: ----------------------------------------
2015-06-15T11:27:46.496+02:00| vthread-4| I120: PREF Optional preferences file not found at /usr/lib/vmware/settings. Using default values.
2015-06-15T11:27:46.496+02:00| vthread-4| I120: DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/usr/lib/vmware/config": No such file or directory.
2015-06-15T11:27:46.496+02:00| vthread-4| I120: Msg_Reset:
2015-06-15T11:27:46.496+02:00| vthread-4| I120: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "/usr/lib/vmware/config": No such file or directory.
2015-06-15T11:27:46.496+02:00| vthread-4| I120: ----------------------------------------
2015-06-15T11:27:46.496+02:00| vthread-4| I120: PREF Optional preferences file not found at /usr/lib/vmware/config. Using default values.
2015-06-15T11:27:46.496+02:00| vthread-4| I120: DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/home/baldr/.vmware/config": No such file or directory.
2015-06-15T11:27:46.496+02:00| vthread-4| I120: Msg_Reset:
2015-06-15T11:27:46.496+02:00| vthread-4| I120: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "/home/baldr/.vmware/config": No such file or directory.
2015-06-15T11:27:46.496+02:00| vthread-4| I120: ----------------------------------------
2015-06-15T11:27:46.496+02:00| vthread-4| I120: PREF Optional preferences file not found at /home/baldr/.vmware/config. Using default values.
2015-06-15T11:27:46.499+02:00| vthread-4| W110: HostinfoReadDistroFile: Cannot work with empty file.
2015-06-15T11:27:46.499+02:00| vthread-4| W110: HostinfoOSData: Error: no distro file found
2015-06-15T11:27:46.714+02:00| vthread-4| I120: Could not load Python library from: /usr/lib/vmware-installer/2.1.0/python/libpython.so
2015-06-15T11:27:46.714+02:00| vthread-4| I120: Could not load VMIS .so from /usr/lib/vmware-installer/2.1.0/sopython/libpy25.so: /usr/lib/vmware-installer/2.1.0/sopython/libpy25.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

but this is where my google-fu breaks down. Anyone got an idea what I could try next?