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 1PAZ0C-0008LP-2j for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 02:11:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EA093E076E; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 02:10:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D063EE076E for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 02:10:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EEC71BC10A for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 02:10:48 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.461 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.461 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.138, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 3eVYObldiJLl for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 02:10:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBB501BC11A for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 02:10:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PAYzE-0001MQ-Hk for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 04:10:05 +0200 Received: from ppp246-231.static.internode.on.net ([203.122.246.231]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 04:10:04 +0200 Received: from iaindb by ppp246-231.static.internode.on.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 04:10:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Iain Buchanan Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware - help Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 01:51:07 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <1287985076.3454.25.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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 203.122.246.231 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20101022 Gentoo Firefox/3.6.9) X-Archives-Salt: cba7a60c-4453-43cd-bdf1-35fe0683e84b X-Archives-Hash: c3d9ac4e3c559e05bec128dcb8c7dda3 Adam Carter gmail.com> writes: > > My principle for using vmware on Gentoo is; use the latest vmware, do not use the latest kernel.I'm using Workstation 7.1.2, which works well with 2.6.34, also works with 2.6.35 (but wants to rebuild one kernel module every time it runs, which I havent tried to fix). Hi, thanks for the suggestions - unfortunately I have to use it since we've started giving VMWare images out internally for service guys to get software updates easily. And I'm also asking work to pay for an upgrade. I just tried 7.1.2 and I get similar results :/ $ vmware *** glibc detected *** vmware: malloc(): memory corruption: 0x08fa63a0 *** (it hangs - ctrl-c to kill it) or: $ VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=force vmware *** glibc detected *** vmware: malloc(): memory corruption: 0x0886b3a0 *** (it hangs again), or: $ vmware-netcfg # (and after the password is entered): vmware-netcfg: malloc.c:3096: sYSMALLOc: Assertion `(old_top == (((mbinptr) (((char *) &((av)->bins[((1) - 1) * 2])) - __builtin_offsetof (struct malloc_chunk, fd)))) && old_size == 0) || ((unsigned long) (old_size) >= (unsigned long)((((__builtin_offsetof (struct malloc_chunk, fd_nextsize))+((2 * (sizeof(size_t))) - 1)) & ~((2 * (sizeof(size_t))) - 1))) && ((old_top)->size & 0x1) && ((unsigned long)old_end & pagemask) == 0)' failed. I think this is indicating some problem with my system, but what? Behaviour is identical with a fresh user. (sorry about the gmane reply, deleted the originals! gmane seems to think a mixed-quote reply is top posting - bah) thanks :) Iain.