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golfadas

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Registered: 2008-12-05

Posts: 22

[solved] vmware workstation 6.5.2 problem, can only run as root...

I've just installed vmware 6.5.2, but unfortunately I can only run it as root, it returns the following error:

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'Gio::Error'

I've followed the archwiki and have applied the patch to kernel 2.29

I've found the following topics about the issue but their solutions dont apply....:
http://www.vmwareforum.org/YaBB.pl?num=1209618757
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/177471

I can run vmware, but only as root, and I don't think i should...
I really need this to be working because i dont use windows, unless to program in flex/flash and to run some stupid but important programmes needed in my university... And i've been searching around and looks like vmware is the best virtualization enviroment.

Last edited by golfadas (2009-05-29 21:38:00)

golfadas

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Registered: 2008-12-05

Posts: 22

Re: [solved] vmware workstation 6.5.2 problem, can only run as root...

i've found the following topic, i think it might help, but i dont know how to write wrapers...
http://www.vmwareforum.org/YaBB.pl?num=1209618757

Can someone help?

golfadas

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Registered: 2008-12-05

Posts: 22

Re: [solved] vmware workstation 6.5.2 problem, can only run as root...

Solved it! it was my gnome icon theme that was screwing everything, i used some theme called 044 or 043 that looked good with elegant brit, if i change to gnome icon theme, everything works :D