[gentoo-user] warning: vmware workstation users should not use new 10.0 profile

[gentoo-user] warning: vmware workstation users should not use new 10.0 profile

[Keith Dart]

The new 10.0 profile recently bumped libxcb, and other X libraries, to
new versions that break the vmware workstation. Since that is a binary
only package it can't be re-compiled by the user. So workstation users
are advised to stick with 2008.0 profile for quite some time. 

(spoken from experience, was not a fun upgrade/downgrade) 

-- Keith Dart

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Re: [gentoo-user] warning: vmware workstation users should not use new 10.0 profile

[Paul Hartman]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 1:59 AM, Keith Dart<keith@dartworks.biz> wrote:
>
> The new 10.0 profile recently bumped libxcb, and other X libraries, to
> new versions that break the vmware workstation. Since that is a binary
> only package it can't be re-compiled by the user. So workstation users
> are advised to stick with 2008.0 profile for quite some time.
>
> (spoken from experience, was not a fun upgrade/downgrade)

Using the latest vmware-workstation and vmware-modules from the vmware
overlay (which were added in the past day, it looks like), everything
seems to be working fine here with 10.0 desktop profile.

Re: [gentoo-user] warning: vmware workstation users should not use new 10.0 profile

[Paul Hartman]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Paul
Hartman<paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 1:59 AM, Keith Dart<keith@dartworks.biz> wrote:
>>
>> The new 10.0 profile recently bumped libxcb, and other X libraries, to
>> new versions that break the vmware workstation. Since that is a binary
>> only package it can't be re-compiled by the user. So workstation users
>> are advised to stick with 2008.0 profile for quite some time.
>>
>> (spoken from experience, was not a fun upgrade/downgrade)
>
> Using the latest vmware-workstation and vmware-modules from the vmware
> overlay (which were added in the past day, it looks like), everything
> seems to be working fine here with 10.0 desktop profile.

Well, I did get some weird error when shutting down the virtual
machine, but everything worked normally until that point. I was
running it in NX so that may have caused it too. I don't know exactly
what the problems to be expected are.

Re: [gentoo-user] warning: vmware workstation users should not use new 10.0 profile

[Keith Dart]

=== On Mon, 08/24, Paul Hartman wrote: ===
> Using the latest vmware-workstation and vmware-modules from the vmware
> overlay (which were added in the past day, it looks like), everything
> seems to be working fine here with 10.0 desktop profile.

===

Do you have the "xcb" use flag set?


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Re: [gentoo-user] warning: vmware workstation users should not use new 10.0 profile

[Paul Hartman]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Keith Dart<keith@dartworks.biz> wrote:
> === On Mon, 08/24, Paul Hartman wrote: ===
>> Using the latest vmware-workstation and vmware-modules from the vmware
>> overlay (which were added in the past day, it looks like), everything
>> seems to be working fine here with 10.0 desktop profile.
>
> ===
>
> Do you have the "xcb" use flag set?

In libX11, yes. I don't explicitly set or unset xcb in male.conf or
packages.use, and vmware-workstation and vmware-modules have no USE
flags at all in their latest versions. After switching to the 10.0
profile, Xcb and other X-related things were emerged/upgraded, though,
and I ran xcb-rebuilder.sh and revdep-rebuild both of which found no
problems.

Re: [gentoo-user] warning: vmware workstation users should not use new 10.0 profile

[Paul Hartman]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Paul
Hartman<paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
> male.conf

I meant make.conf, of course. :)

Re: [gentoo-user] warning: vmware workstation users should not use new 10.0 profile

[Keith Dart]

=== On Mon, 08/24, Paul Hartman wrote: ===
> After switching to the 10.0
> profile, Xcb and other X-related things were emerged/upgraded, though,
> and I ran xcb-rebuilder.sh and revdep-rebuild both of which found no
> problems.
===

interesting. On my system some library named libxcb-xlib is used:


315 $ ldd /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/bin/vmware | grep xcb
        libxcb-xlib.so.0 => /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0
        (0x00007ff7f67be000)

But the new X libraries in 10.0 profile remove that file so it fails to
dynamically link that library.

Maybe I need to run the overlay...



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Re: [gentoo-user] warning: vmware workstation users should not use new 10.0 profile

[Paul Hartman]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Keith Dart<keith@dartworks.biz> wrote:
> === On Mon, 08/24, Paul Hartman wrote: ===
>> After switching to the 10.0
>> profile, Xcb and other X-related things were emerged/upgraded, though,
>> and I ran xcb-rebuilder.sh and revdep-rebuild both of which found no
>> problems.
> ===
>
> interesting. On my system some library named libxcb-xlib is used:
>
>
> 315 $ ldd /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/bin/vmware | grep xcb
>        libxcb-xlib.so.0 => /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0
>        (0x00007ff7f67be000)
>
> But the new X libraries in 10.0 profile remove that file so it fails to
> dynamically link that library.
>
> Maybe I need to run the overlay...

I've always been using vmware overlay, when new kernels and other
things that break vmware, it usually has a fixed version within a few
days. Right now I'm using vmware-modules 1.0.0.25 and
vmware-workstation 6.5.3.185404.

$ ldd /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/bin/vmware | grep xcb
        libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0x00007f7de0aac000)

Seems vmware has updated it in the newer version.

[gentoo-user] Re: warning: vmware workstation users should not use new 10.0 profile

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Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Keith Dart<keith@dartworks.biz> wrote:
>> === On Mon, 08/24, Paul Hartman wrote: ===
>>> After switching to the 10.0
>>> profile, Xcb and other X-related things were emerged/upgraded, though,
>>> and I ran xcb-rebuilder.sh and revdep-rebuild both of which found no
>>> problems.
>> ===
>>
>> interesting. On my system some library named libxcb-xlib is used:
>>
>>
>> 315 $ ldd /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/bin/vmware | grep xcb
>>        libxcb-xlib.so.0 => /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0
>>        (0x00007ff7f67be000)
>>
>> But the new X libraries in 10.0 profile remove that file so it fails to
>> dynamically link that library.
>>
>> Maybe I need to run the overlay...
> 
> I've always been using vmware overlay, when new kernels and other
> things that break vmware, it usually has a fixed version within a few
> days. Right now I'm using vmware-modules 1.0.0.25 and
> vmware-workstation 6.5.3.185404.
> 
> $ ldd /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/bin/vmware | grep xcb
>         libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0x00007f7de0aac000)
> 
> Seems vmware has updated it in the newer version.
> 
> 

Just because ldd reports a library doesn't mean that there is a hard
dependency on that library.  If ../bin/vmware links against libX11.so.6,
but not libxcb*, and libX11.so.6 is linked against libxcb-xlib.so.0,
then ldd will report libxcb-xlib.so.0, because it is an indirect
dependency.  To find direct dependencies, you can use
`scanelf -qF '#F%n' /path/to/file`, which will output a comma-separated
list of libraries (for instance, "libxcb.so.1,libdl.so.2,libc.so.6").

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