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Dontpanic_x

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[SOLVED] Maybe Arch Crashing or Hardware (not sure) running VMWare

I'm not sure where the issue is or how to look for whats causing this so please forgive for the limited information:

It seems that when I run any VM on VMWare my desktop crashes or something else which brings up the following screen shot which only allows me to power off via power button to restart:

https://pasteboard.co/qnJ6Rv4KUud0.jpg

and linked is my

sudo journalctrl -b

http://ix.io/4zRG

Please let me know if there's anything else i may need to add

Last edited by Dontpanic_x (2023-08-15 23:14:20)

Lone_Wolf

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Re: [SOLVED] Maybe Arch Crashing or Hardware (not sure) running VMWare

Jul 06 14:35:05 archie systemd[1315]: Dependency failed for Portal service (GNOME implementation).
Jul 06 14:35:05 archie systemd[1315]: xdg-desktop-portal-gnome.service: Job xdg-desktop-portal-gnome.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.

Are you running gnome or something else , like xfce ?
If the latter, remove xdg-desktop-portal-gnome (it's known to cause issues unless someone runs gnome itself).

Is archlinux running as guest and if so what is the host / hypervisor  running ?
Which vmware product & version are you using ?

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Dontpanic_x

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Re: [SOLVED] Maybe Arch Crashing or Hardware (not sure) running VMWare

Jul 06 14:35:05 archie systemd[1315]: Dependency failed for Portal service (GNOME implementation).
Jul 06 14:35:05 archie systemd[1315]: xdg-desktop-portal-gnome.service: Job xdg-desktop-portal-gnome.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.

Are you running gnome or something else , like xfce ?
If the latter, remove xdg-desktop-portal-gnome (it's known to cause issues unless someone runs gnome itself).

Is archlinux running as guest and if so what is the host / hypervisor  running ?
Which vmware product & version are you using ?

I am running xfce4... I removed

xdg-desktop-portal-gnome

and it still crashed unfortunately.

My host machine is Arch Linux and running VMware workstation 17 pro

Last edited by Dontpanic_x (2023-07-06 11:00:51)

Lone_Wolf

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Re: [SOLVED] Maybe Arch Crashing or Hardware (not sure) running VMWare

Looked over the info again and noticed the bottom of the screenshot shows a gtk critcal failed assertion triggered by vmware .

install a simple windowmanager (that doesn't use gtk or qt) , like openbox or twm .
Start x with that simple Window Manager , then start a vmware VM. Does it crash also ?

If it doesn't , logout and switch to xfce and start a vmware VM to force a crash.
After rebooting use journalctl -b -1 to get the journal from the previous (crashed) boot and post it.

Are you using a vmware bundle or vmware-workstation from aur ?

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2023-07-07 09:22:07)

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Disliking systemd intensely, but not satisfied with alternatives so focusing on taming systemd.

clean chroot building not flexible enough ?
Try clean chroot manager by graysky

Dontpanic_x

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Registered: 2018-10-27

Posts: 27

Re: [SOLVED] Maybe Arch Crashing or Hardware (not sure) running VMWare

Looked over the info again and noticed the bottom of the screenshot shows a gtk critcal failed assertion triggered by vmware .

install a simple windowmanager (that doesn't use gtk or qt) , like openbox or twm .
Start x with that simple Window Manager , then start a vmware VM. Does it crash also ?

If it doesn't , logout and switch to xfce and start a vmware VM to force a crash.
After rebooting use journalctl -b -1 to get the journal from the previous (crashed) boot and post it.

Are you using a vmware bundle or vmware-workstation from aur ?

Apologies, for late reply as i have been in and out of the hospital. Just checked on this, I will attempt to do the start x with a simple window manager once I figure out which one i should use. I am running vmware-workstation from the AUR 17.0.2-1...

Lone_Wolf

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Re: [SOLVED] Maybe Arch Crashing or Hardware (not sure) running VMWare

No problem, I hope things are better now ?

The simple WM is only for testing and to verify if the issue is xfce related or not.

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Disliking systemd intensely, but not satisfied with alternatives so focusing on taming systemd.

clean chroot building not flexible enough ?
Try clean chroot manager by graysky

Dontpanic_x

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Re: [SOLVED] Maybe Arch Crashing or Hardware (not sure) running VMWare

Not sure if it was an update or the WM but it stopped crashing....