This morning I did an xorg-server upgrade which included IIRC 33 files total on my system. After the upgrade I am unable to run the vmplayer app. The GUI never comes up. If I run it in a terminal it seems to die quietly after about 5 seconds. There are no additional messages in dmesg. The machine is _mostly_ stable. The machine is emerge -DuN @world/revdep-rebuild -i clean at this time.
I tried upgrading to 2.6.37 a month ago but had this same problem so I fell back to 2.6.36-gentoo-r6 which has been working. At the time I was using an ATI card so I'm going to try 2.6.37 again after I post this. All Virtualbox VMs are running fine. Can anyone suggest other things to look at? The only purpose this compute server has in life is to run many VMs for me so this is a big killer to my afternoon. I did install mailx/smtp stuff this morning prior to checking these VMs. I doubt that's involved, but maybe who knows... Let me know any questions or requests for more info. Thanks in advance, Mark Here is what i see: mark@c2stable ~ $ vmplayer Logging to /tmp/vmware-mark/setup-5266.log filename: /lib/modules/2.6.36-gentoo-r6/misc/vmmon.ko supported: external license: GPL v2 description: VMware Virtual Machine Monitor. author: VMware, Inc. depends: vermagic: 2.6.36-gentoo-r6 SMP preempt mod_unload modversions filename: /lib/modules/2.6.36-gentoo-r6/misc/vmnet.ko supported: external license: GPL v2 description: VMware Virtual Networking Driver. author: VMware, Inc. depends: vermagic: 2.6.36-gentoo-r6 SMP preempt mod_unload modversions filename: /lib/modules/2.6.36-gentoo-r6/misc/vmblock.ko supported: external version: 1.1.2.0 license: GPL v2 description: VMware Blocking File System author: VMware, Inc. srcversion: 400149ED038D22A87322D56 depends: vermagic: 2.6.36-gentoo-r6 SMP preempt mod_unload modversions parm: root:The directory the file system redirects to. (charp) filename: /lib/modules/2.6.36-gentoo-r6/misc/vmci.ko supported: external license: GPL v2 description: VMware Virtual Machine Communication Interface (VMCI). author: VMware, Inc. depends: vermagic: 2.6.36-gentoo-r6 SMP preempt mod_unload modversions filename: /lib/modules/2.6.36-gentoo-r6/misc/vsock.ko supported: external license: GPL v2 version: 1.0.0.0 description: VMware Virtual Socket Family author: VMware, Inc. srcversion: 19B3B9DE37C42158B0DC539 depends: vmci vermagic: 2.6.36-gentoo-r6 SMP preempt mod_unload modversions filename: /lib/modules/2.6.36-gentoo-r6/misc/vmmon.ko supported: external license: GPL v2 description: VMware Virtual Machine Monitor. author: VMware, Inc. depends: vermagic: 2.6.36-gentoo-r6 SMP preempt mod_unload modversions mark@c2stable ~ $ The kernel is gentoo-sources-2.6.36-r6 mark@c2stable ~ $ uname -a Linux c2stable 2.6.36-gentoo-r6 #29 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jan 22 07:39:35 PST 2011 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU X 980 @ 3.33GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux mark@c2stable ~ $ I tried a modules-rebuild -X rebuild but that didn't fix anything. Here's the list of what get's rebuilt: (NOTE: For non-module-rebuild users the -X tells it to emerge the latest rev, not the values shown below) c2stable ~ # module-rebuild list ** Packages which I will emerge are: =x11-base/xorg-drivers-1.7 =x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.3.2 =x11-drivers/xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.2 =x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard-1.4.0 =x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse-1.5.0 =x11-drivers/xf86-video-vmware-11.0.1 =media-libs/mesa-7.8.1 =x11-drivers/xf86-input-virtualbox-3.2.10-r1 =x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa-2.3.0 =x11-libs/libdrm-2.4.23 =app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-4.0.2 =app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.28-r1 =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-270.18 c2stable ~ # c2stable ~ # cat /etc/make.conf # Please consult /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example for a more # detailed example. CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe" #Safe CFlags for the Core-i7 (web info) saved for reference #CFLAGS="-march=core2 -msse4 -mcx16 -msahf -O2 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" # WARNING: Changing your CHOST is not something that should be done lightly. # Please consult http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml before changing. CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" # These are the USE flags that were used in addition to what is provided by the # profile used for building. #FEATURES="buildpkg parallel-fetch userfetch" USE="acpi nptl nptlonly -ipv6 fortran unicode hal dbus X -bluetooth -esound -timidity -cups -java -gnome gstreamer jpeg jpeg2k kde qt4 qt3support -arts -eds png policykit xvmc" MAKEOPTS="-j9" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ " SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev mouse keyboard" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev nvidia vesa vmware" #VIDEO_CARDS="radeon fbdev vesa" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" LINGUAS="en" ACCEPT_LICENSE="dlj-1.1 PUEL AdobeFlash-10.1" source /var/lib/layman/make.conf # If you have layman installed, this line must be below the layman make.conf line PORTDIR_OVERLAY="${PORTDIR_OVERLAY} /usr/local/portage/" c2stable ~ # c2stable ~ # lsmod Module Size Used by vmnet 30852 13 vmblock 9883 1 vsock 33794 0 vmci 46073 1 vsock vmmon 64450 0 ipv6 211146 32 vboxnetadp 3948 0 vboxnetflt 14445 0 vboxdrv 1737903 2 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt snd_hda_codec_nvhdmi 12325 4 nvidia 10408743 28 snd_hda_codec_analog 64664 1 snd_hda_intel 18536 3 snd_hda_codec 55527 3 snd_hda_codec_nvhdmi,snd_hda_codec_analog,snd_hda_intel i2c_i801 6596 0 snd_pcm 60107 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec snd_timer 15597 1 snd_pcm snd 38675 11 snd_hda_codec_analog,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 840 1 snd sky2 38718 0 snd_page_alloc 5961 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm rtc_cmos 8078 0 agpgart 23806 1 nvidia c2stable ~ #