From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OtCYr-0001Gc-9U for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:47:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5B3B0E09D2; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 04:46:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail2.pcorp.com.au (mail2.pcorp.com.au [150.101.72.19]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D73ECE09D2 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 04:46:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail2.pcorp.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5581C1075196 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 14:16:12 +0930 (CST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mail2.pcorp.com.au Received: from mail2.pcorp.com.au ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail2.pcorp.com.au [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 9n2sQ4eoMBKW; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 14:16:11 +0930 (CST) Received: from [172.16.0.52] (unknown [172.16.0.52]) by mail2.pcorp.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C202B1075194 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 14:16:11 +0930 (CST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] vmware fail - malloc & other wierd errors From: Iain Buchanan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1283913754.2666.108.camel@localhost> References: <1283913754.2666.108.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:14:43 +0930 Message-ID: <1283921083.2666.160.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 04434c09-e1fd-4227-af36-288e685dc58f X-Archives-Hash: 966e00ff3e5e98d4169517e9e3d4fa43 it's always the way, but I have vmplayer running now, by some magic set of events: sudo emerge --config vmware-player sudo /opt/vmware/player/bin/vmplayer (didn't work) VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=force vmplayer the final command worked, where it didn't before, so I don't get why. Now to try vmware-workstation and see... -- Iain Buchanan All laws are simulations of reality. -- John C. Lilly