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disordinary
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‎04-07-2013 06:12 PM

Vmware 9 on Fedora 18 stopped working

Hi VMWare workstation 9 has suddenly stopped loading under Fedora 18 / KDE - was working fine before. As far as I know I haven't done anything to break it.

If I try and run it nothing happens, if I run it from the command line I get no errors, it just doesn't work - there appers to be no logs.

I've tried removing it and reinstalling it.


Vmware player doesn't work either.

My kernel version is 3.7.4-204.

Any idea how I can diagnose the problem? Turn on verbose loging, etc. Has anyone experienced anything similar?

Unfortunately I rely on VMWare to do my job, and I really don't want to have to boot into Windows.

Thanks

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mfelker
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‎04-07-2013 08:35 PM

Same thing happeed to  me on Fedoa 19.  Everything  workinig   fine - then this   runninig  vmware  from command line

vmware:12727): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_get_qdata: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

Extremely helpful:smileyconfused:

kernel 3.9.0-0.rc5.git1.301.fc19.x86_64

VMware installed  and compiled without a  problem.  Only  had to add the Serial number manually in the h license file - happens  regularly in newer kernels but some kinid soul possted a fix.

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disordinary
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‎04-08-2013 12:00 AM

Just upgraded the Kernel to 3.8.5 still no joy.

Might try and downgrade VMWare to an older version of 9.

Still will be great to know how to put VMWare into Verbose mode so that I can see exactly whats going wrong - otherwise I'm just stabbing in the dark.

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brianmillett
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‎04-08-2013 10:52 AM

Same here.

Fedora 19, kernel-3.9.0-0.rc5.git1.301.fc19.x86_64, VMware Player 5.0.2 build-1031769

I also have

2013-04-08T12:22:41.819-06:00| player| W110: GLib-GObject: g_object_get_qdata: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
2013-04-08T12:22:41.819-06:00| player| W110: GLib-GObject: g_object_get_qdata: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
2013-04-08T12:22:41.819-06:00| player| W110: glibmm: Failed to wrap object of type '(null)'. Hint: this error is commonly caused by failing to call a library init() function.
2013-04-08T12:22:41.820-06:00| player| W110: Caught signal 11 -- pid 31938
2013-04-08T12:22:41.820-06:00| player| I120: SIGNAL: eip 0x7fe41cfd41bc esp 0x7fff9a86f8e0 ebp 0x7fff9a86f960
2013-04-08T12:22:41.820-06:00| player| I120: SIGNAL: eax 0x7fe4232b4528 ebx 0x0 ecx 0x7fe4232afdc0 edx 0x7fe41ffdc7d8 esi 0x7fff9a86f960 edi 0x7fff9a86f960
2013-04-08T12:22:41.820-06:00| player| I120: SIGNAL: stack 7FFF9A86F8E0 : 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x09ad847a 0x00007fe4
2013-04-08T12:22:41.820-06:00| player| I120: SIGNAL: stack 7FFF9A86F8F0 : 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x9a86fbd0 0x00007fff
2013-04-08T12:22:41.820-06:00| player| I120: SIGNAL: stack 7FFF9A86F900 : 0x1341cd47 0x00007fe4 0x134c1bfd 0x00007fe4
2013-04-08T12:22:41.820-06:00| player| I120: SIGNAL: stack 7FFF9A86F910 : 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x13418f17 0x00007fe4
2013-04-08T12:22:41.820-06:00| player| I120: SIGNAL: stack 7FFF9A86F920 : 0x0c5c8368 0x00007fe4 0x1d413089 0x00007fe4
2013-04-08T12:22:41.820-06:00| player| I120: SIGNAL: stack 7FFF9A86F930 : 0x231d3ae0 0x00007fe4 0x231d3af0 0x00007fe4
2013-04-08T12:22:41.820-06:00| player| I120: SIGNAL: stack 7FFF9A86F940 : 0x232b6f68 0x00007fe4 0x1ffdc780 0x00007fe4
2013-04-08T12:22:41.820-06:00| player| I120: SIGNAL: stack 7FFF9A86F950 : 0x232b7d48 0x00007fe4 0x0000000a 0x00000000

The symbacktrace is

in function Util_BacktraceWithFunc in object /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmwarebase.so.0/libvmwarebase.so.0 loaded at 00007fe40ae5a000
in function (null) in object /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmwarebase.so.0/libvmwarebase.so.0 loaded at 00007fe40ae5a000
in function (null) in object /lib64/libc.so.6 loaded at 00007fe41fc23000
in function _ZN3Atk6Object8set_nameERKN4Glib7ustringE in object /lib64/libatkmm-1.6.so.1 loaded at 00007fe41cfa9000
in function _ZN3lui6Button6createERKN4Glib7ustringES4_S4_b in object /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmwareui.so.0/libvmwareui.so.0 loaded at 00007fe4086c1000
in function _ZN3lui6Button6createEN3Gtk7StockIDERKN4Glib7ustringEb in object /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmwareui.so.0/libvmwareui.so.0 loaded at 00007fe4086c1000
in function _ZN3lui6ButtonC1ENS0_4TypeE in object /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmwareui.so.0/libvmwareui.so.0 loaded at 00007fe4086c1000
in function _ZN3lui12NoSignalViewC1Ev in object /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmwareui.so.0/libvmwareui.so.0 loaded at 00007fe4086c1000
in function _ZN6player4ViewC1EN4Glib6RefPtrIN3Gtk9UIManagerEEE in object /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmplayer.so/libvmplayer.so loaded at 00007fe4080d6000
in function _ZN6player6Player18SetUpWindowGeneralEN4sigc4slotIvbRKN3cui5ErrorENS1_3nilES7_S7_S7_S7_EENS2_IvS7_S7_S7_S7_S7_S7_S7_EE in object /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmplayer.so/libvmplayer.so loaded at 00007fe4080d6000
in function _ZN4sigc8internal10slot_call2INS_18bound_mem_functor2IvN6player6PlayerENS_4slotIvbRKN3cui5ErrorENS_3nilESA_SA_SA_SA_EENS5_IvSA_SA_SA_SA_SA_SA_SA_EEEEvSB_SC_E7call_itEPNS0_8slot_repERKSB_RKSC_ in object /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmplayer.so/libvmplayer.so loaded at 00007fe4080d6000
in function _ZN3cui9SlotChain8NextSlotEN4sigc4slotIvbRKNS_5ErrorENS1_3nilES6_S6_S6_S6_EENS2_IvS6_S6_S6_S6_S6_S6_S6_EE in object /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmwareui.so.0/libvmwareui.so.0 loaded at 00007fe4086c1000
in function _ZN3cui9SlotChain5StartEN4sigc4slotIvbRKNS_5ErrorENS1_3nilES6_S6_S6_S6_EENS2_IvS6_S6_S6_S6_S6_S6_S6_EE in object /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmwareui.so.0/libvmwareui.so.0 loaded at 00007fe4086c1000
in function _ZN4sigc8internal10slot_call0INS_12bind_functorILin1ENS_18bound_mem_functor2IvN3cui9SlotChainENS_4slotIvbRKNS4_5ErrorENS_3nilESA_SA_SA_SA_EENS6_IvSA_SA_SA_SA_SA_SA_SA_EEEENS_12hide_functorILin1ENSE_ILin1ENS_16pointer_functor0IvEEEEEESC_SA_SA_SA_SA_SA_EEvE7call_itEPNS0_8slot_repE in object /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmplayer.so/libvmplayer.so loaded at 00007fe4080d6000
in function _ZN3Gtk6RunSig12gtk_callbackEPv in object /lib64/libgtkmm-2.4.so.1 loaded at 00007fe40bffd000
in function gtk_main in object /lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 loaded at 00007fe41312d000
in function main in object /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmplayer.so/libvmplayer.so loaded at 00007fe4080d6000
in function main in object /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmplayer loaded at 00007fe420a52000
in function __libc_start_main in object /lib64/libc.so.6 loaded at 00007fe41fc23000
in function (null) in object /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmplayer loaded at 00007fe420a52000

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mfelker
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‎04-08-2013 11:54 AM

You get more ouptu directly if you run vmware efrom from the come line.  Ther is quite a bit more data in /var/log (don't know the exact file file name but its something like vmware-installer log - you will fiind.  May not help much  in the sense of hacking ther problem however.

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disordinary
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‎04-08-2013 02:46 PM

No command line wasn't giving me anything - quite a bit of info in the tmp dir though.

I managed to sort it, don't know what I did but I will give you all my steps anyway.

Uninstalled VMware Workstation (vmware-installer -u vmware-workstation) with all settings removed.

Downloaded the kernel Headers (because I had upgraded the Headers to try and get the new version working)

Installed VMWare Workstation 9.0.1 which wouldn't run because of header issues

Installed VMWare Workstation 9.0.2 as an upgrade.

Ran it, it worked.

I'm guessing there is just an issue with the upgrade to 9.0.2 which is unfortunate.

I tell my work that Linux is a net productivity gain which is why I can run it in a Windows shop, however much I gain in productivity though I probably lose whenever I get an issue - a day or so lost because of this.

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