Re: [gentoo-amd64] VMware problems

[Stefan Ruester <stefan_ruester@yahoo.de>]

Brett Johnson wrote:
> Not sure if this will help, but I had a similar problem with both
> vmware-server and vmware-server-console. If I tried to access a running
> vm, or start a vm, the application would just hang. After a bit of
> poking around, I was able to determine my issue had something to do with
> ldap access. My primary account is authenticated via ldap, so there was
> no local account for my user. I created a local account for my user id
> and now I can run local vm images as well as connect to remote servers.
> 
> Brett

Thanks for your help.
I authenticate only local. So my user account is already there. However,
i think the problem might be related to a perl problem. I'm not
absolutely sure about this but the strace showed the following

.....
open("/usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux/auto/VMware/VmPerl/VmPerl.so",O_RDONLY)=4
.....
sendto(4, "\237W\0", 3, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 3
read(4, "\237W\1\1", 2048)              = 4
sendto(4, "\202\0", 2, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 2
read(4, "\242\7\237&\0041.01", 2048)    = 9
sendto(4, "\204\0", 2, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 2
read(4, "\204\2\3\206", 2048)=4
sendto(4,"\277YO\237\201I\1\1\277\201L\6\237\201S\2\3\206\237\"7"...,82,MSG_NOSIGNAL,NULL,0)=82
read(4, "\237Y\1\1", 2048)=4
sendto(4, "\277\"\10\237\201I\1\1\212\1\2", 11, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL,0)=11
read(4,

So the system hangs at a read from "VmPerl.so". A second trace stopped
at exactly the same position which makes me think there around might be
the problem.

Stefan
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