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Stefan_xyz

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Registered: 2019-09-01

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VMWare installation: vmware-installer not available or seg. fault

So i wanted to install vmware.
I downloaded the AUR package.
I made the package build and then executed

pacman -U vmware-workstation-15.5.0-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

It went fine, no errors or warning.
Now i don't have the "vmware-installer" command.
But i got the "vmware" command (including other vm related commands)

But i get the following error when entering "vmware"

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

So how do i get the vmware-installer command (do i need this) and how can i fix the segmentation fault?

V1del

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Re: VMWare installation: vmware-installer not available or seg. fault

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … _core_dump what are the contents of this dump?

Stefan_xyz

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Re: VMWare installation: vmware-installer not available or seg. fault

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … _core_dump what are the contents of this dump?

The dump (i think only the latest is relevant right?)

Mon 2019-11-04 12:25:16 CET    1891  1000  1000  11 present   /usr/lib/vmware/bin/appLoader

V1del

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Re: VMWare installation: vmware-installer not available or seg. fault

Yes what do you get from following the steps to actually get the backtrace. You should also read the pinned commenon the AUR page  if you haven't yet done so

Last edited by V1del (2019-11-04 11:35:21)

Stefan_xyz

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Re: VMWare installation: vmware-installer not available or seg. fault

Yes what do you get from following the steps to actually get the backtrace. You should also read the pinned commenon the AUR page  if you haven't yet done so

Info:

PID: 1891 (vmware)
           UID: 1000 (stefan)
           GID: 1000 (stefan)
        Signal: 11 (SEGV)
     Timestamp: Mon 2019-11-04 12:25:16 CET (9min ago)
  Command Line: /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware
    Executable: /usr/lib/vmware/bin/appLoader
 Control Group: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/session-2.scope
          Unit: session-2.scope
         Slice: user-1000.slice
       Session: 2
     Owner UID: 1000 (stefan)
       Boot ID: 16d603466b704459ae9a5249d3ba5b6f
    Machine ID: dc8ce435031f4de19b32599c74402f6b
      Hostname: arch
       Storage: /var/lib/systemd/coredump/core.vmware.1000.16d603466b704459ae9a5249d3ba5b6f.1891.1572866716000000000000.lz4
       Message: Process 1891 (vmware) of user 1000 dumped core.
                
                Stack trace of thread 1891:
                #0  0x00007fb7472a96f5 __strlen_avx2 (libc.so.6)
                #1  0x000055e291af48c2 n/a (appLoader)
                #2  0x000055e291af6ec7 n/a (appLoader)
                #3  0x000055e291af371b n/a (appLoader)
                #4  0x00007fb74716f153 __libc_start_main (libc.so.6)
                #5  0x000055e291af4045 n/a (appLoader)

Stefan_xyz

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Re: VMWare installation: vmware-installer not available or seg. fault

The gdb:

#0  0x00007fb7472a96f5 in __strlen_avx2 () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6
#1  0x000055e291af48c2 in ?? ()
#2  0x000055e291af6ec7 in ?? ()
#3  0x000055e291af371b in ?? ()
#4  0x00007fb74716f153 in __libc_start_main () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6
#5  0x000055e291af4045 in ?? ()
#6  0x00007fff897b13d8 in ?? ()
#7  0x000000000000001c in ?? ()
#8  0x0000000000000001 in ?? ()
#9  0x00007fff897b1aad in ?? ()
#10 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()

V1del

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Re: VMWare installation: vmware-installer not available or seg. fault

Please edit and append to your post if you're the only one posting in between instead of making a new one.

What's your processor? Did you read the blue note in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VM … stallation ?

Last edited by V1del (2019-11-04 11:44:23)

Stefan_xyz

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Registered: 2019-09-01

Posts: 107

Re: VMWare installation: vmware-installer not available or seg. fault

Yes what do you get from following the steps to actually get the backtrace. You should also read the pinned commenon the AUR page  if you haven't yet done so

I done what the pinned comment says. Doesn't change anything

Stefan_xyz

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Registered: 2019-09-01

Posts: 107

Re: VMWare installation: vmware-installer not available or seg. fault

Please edit and append to your post if you're the only one posting in between instead of making a new one.

What's your processor? Did you read the blue note in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VM … stallation ?

Got an i7-7700HQ. Shouldn't be a problem since i ran VM also on other linux machines before Arch