Strange VMware (X?) problem

varnyu · n00b Joined: 23 Aug 2002 Posts: 16

I just emerged VMware and got the following problem during startup and vmware doesn't starts:

XIO: fatal IO error 0 (Success) on X server ":0.0"
after 2833 requests (2832 known processed) with 99 events remaining.

(vmware-config.pl run successfully except some variable redefinition warnings)

VMware Workstation 3.2.0 build-2230,
gcc 3.2.2,
xfree: 4.2.99.4,
kernel: 2.4.20-xfs_pre6

Anyone has idea what should I do with this?

Thames · n00b Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Posts: 53

StuBear · Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2003 10:02 am Post subject:

This is a glibc issue, I guess you have recently upgraded to the latest glibc? I can't remember the version number cause I'm on windoze at work :cry:

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I found a fix on vmware.linux.experimental

vmware.linux.experimental on Google Groups

I followed these instructions and it solved the problem, will file a bug with the fix on bugzilla when I get home

narensankar · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 Nov 2002 Posts: 109

The fix on vmware-experimental does not work for me as non root. I am on gentoo latest and greated with unstable I strictly followed the instructions
and I can run vmware as root. But not as a user. It seems that the LD_PRELOAD works, as I can see the reloc messages, but then I get permission denied messages for vmmon. It seems that using LD_PRELOAD kills the suid bit that is propagated from vmware to vmware-mks and vmware-ui. I can chmod a+rw /dev/misc/vmmon and then the ui starts, but it dies complaining about permissions on /dev/tty0 and /dev/tty7 (my x is running on tty7). So in order to get it to work, I had to chmod a+rw /dev/vc/0 and /dev/vc/7. For full screen I had to chmod a+rw /dev/vc/8.

Then vmware works fine. So I don't know if changing all these permissions is the right thing to do, but at least it got vmware running.

I don't know if this suid behavior is gentoo specific or in general.
Hope this helps.

StuBear · Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2003 1:09 am Post subject:

mallchin · Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 12:47 am Post subject:

I found the bug posting relating to this and indeed it is glibc but has anyone solved this without changing permissions on devices?

It'd be nice to keep suid intact...

Until then it's no vmware for me :cry:

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BernieKe · Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2003 2:35 pm Post subject:

Hi, i did like told here, and as root i can indeed get everything to work fine (if i do xhost + localhost), and as a user vmware starts, but no fullscreen (i did do chmod a+rw /dev/vc/8)

this is the error: