From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HQ2jM-0003VY-Vl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 14:39:33 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l2AEbdoD010975; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 14:37:39 GMT Received: from brego.pewamo.office ([216.157.201.45]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l2AEaO4Y010805 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 14:36:24 GMT Received: by brego.pewamo.office (Postfix, from userid 500) id CE8C5108E05; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 09:36:23 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 09:36:23 -0500 From: Michael George To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] vmware-player fonts unreadable Message-ID: <20070310143623.GA4416@brego.pewamo.office> References: <20070308235742.GA13331@brego.pewamo.office> <45F1741D.9080002@virtadpt.net> <20070310140421.GA20800@brego.pewamo.office> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070310140421.GA20800@brego.pewamo.office> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Archives-Salt: b4ee1890-4815-47e1-9b4b-2e41ded850b8 X-Archives-Hash: 9fb51fa83ad607a4080cc0c28de8b506 I noticed that my realplayer also has the same problems, so I don't think it's a vmware-specific issue... Hmm... On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 09:04:21AM -0500, Michael George wrote: > I have tried re-running vmware-config, emerge -C of vmware player with a > complete reinstall, I even tried version 1.0.3 (which wouldn't start up > right), but none of that worked. The fonts for the player are still > missing. BTW, I resync my portage tree daily, so it's not out of date. > > Does vmware-player install as binaries? I guess I didn't watch the > build to see if it doesn... if so, then maybe my upgrade of the > emul-linux-x86-{baselibs,xlibs,qtlibs,soundlibs,gtklibs,sdl,medialibs} might > have caused the problem. > > ldd on vmplayer shows it as statically linked, so it's not a shared > library that's the problem... > > qdepends shows shared-mime-info as a dependency, so I tried updating > that... But that didn't help, either. > > I wonder if there's a dependency that is overlooked in the ebuild... Is there > a way to find that out? > > Anyone have any other suggestions? > > On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 09:50:05AM -0500, The Doctor wrote: > > Michael George wrote: > > > I can run vmware-player just fine and my install of XP will run in it, > > > but all the text is just little boxes. Luckily, I remember the > > > important ones (exit, how to focus and release focus, etc), but I cannot > > > change any options now. > > > > > > Has anyone else run into this? Is it perhaps the emulation libraries > > > being a problem? > > > > Yes - I ran into this with mozilla-firefox-bin (which also seems to have broken > > Flash 9) and mplayer-bin a couple of days ago. This morning I ran an emerge -C > > to uninstall all of the packages, re-sync'd my Portage tree, and re-emerged > > everything. Because I'm not in the same physical location as that box, though, > > I can't test it yet. I'll try it tonight after I get home from work, though, > > and post my results. -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list