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Hi guys
I got a problem installing VMWare following the official guide.
What I did:
I installed all dependencies required:
pacman -Syu
pacman -S fuse2
pacman -S gtkmm
pacman -S linux-header
pacman -S ncurses
i downloaded VMWare-Player.bundle from official site
and I ran:
sudo chmod 777 ./VMWare-player.bundle
sudo ./VMWare-player.bundle --console -I
but i got:
Extracting VMware Installer...done.
User interface initialization failed. Exiting. Check the log for details.
this is log file
2018-06-16T18:24:52.372Z| vthread-4| I125: Log for VMware Workstation pid=2486 version=12.5.7 build=build-6988369 option=Release
2018-06-16T18:24:52.372Z| vthread-4| I125: The process is 64-bit.
2018-06-16T18:24:52.372Z| vthread-4| I125: Host codepage=UTF-8 encoding=UTF-8
2018-06-16T18:24:52.372Z| vthread-4| I125: Host is unknown
2018-06-16T18:24:52.371Z| vthread-4| I125: DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/etc/vmware/config": No such file or directory.
2018-06-16T18:24:52.371Z| vthread-4| I125: PREF Optional preferences file not found at /etc/vmware/config. Using default values.
2018-06-16T18:24:52.371Z| vthread-4| I125: DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/usr/lib/vmware/settings": No such file or directory.
2018-06-16T18:24:52.371Z| vthread-4| I125: PREF Optional preferences file not found at /usr/lib/vmware/settings. Using default values.
2018-06-16T18:24:52.371Z| vthread-4| I125: DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/usr/lib/vmware/config": No such file or directory.
2018-06-16T18:24:52.371Z| vthread-4| I125: PREF Optional preferences file not found at /usr/lib/vmware/config. Using default values.
2018-06-16T18:24:52.372Z| vthread-4| I125: DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/root/.vmware/config": No such file or directory.
2018-06-16T18:24:52.372Z| vthread-4| I125: PREF Optional preferences file not found at /root/.vmware/config. Using default values.
2018-06-16T18:24:52.372Z| vthread-4| I125: PREF Unable to check permissions for preferences file.
2018-06-16T18:24:52.372Z| vthread-4| I125: DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/root/.vmware/preferences": No such file or directory.
2018-06-16T18:24:52.372Z| vthread-4| I125: PREF Failed to load user preferences.
2018-06-16T18:24:52.374Z| vthread-4| W115: HostinfoReadDistroFile: Cannot work with empty file.
2018-06-16T18:24:52.374Z| vthread-4| W115: HostinfoOSData: Error: no distro file found
I have no idea what to do next
If someone has any kind of suggests he's wellcome
Thanks
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Why do you try to run ./VMWare-player.bundle as root?
You cannot run GUI processes w/ a "naive" sudo and you should not run them as root at all.
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thank for replay.. actually i tried in both mode (root and not root) and the result is the same
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You get a "User interface initialization failed." error?
loginctl session-status
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Nope, i checked but no errors reported
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Not from that command, but from calling vmware player.
I wanted to see whether you're in an active X11 session (or wayland or console or just not the active user), so please post the loginctl output.
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