[Vmware-package-maintainers] Bug#434302: Bug#434302: vmware-package: Install vmware-server-console package doesn't load on i386

[James Healy]

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Robert Edmonds wrote:
> /usr/share/themes/Clearlooks/gtk-2.0/gtkrc is located in the
> gtk2-engines package, whose description says
> 
>     [...]
>     The package includes the following engines:
>     * Clearlooks, the default GNOME theme, based on Bluecurve;
>     [...]
> 
> I take it you're running under GNOME?  Have you tried running under an
> alternate X environment, or with another theme?

Yep, I'm running gnome. With a different theme the same error occurs,
but with the path pointing to the relevant theme's gtkrc. Under KDE it
silently fails to launch.

> However, I've just installed the gtk2-engines package on my etch/i386
> workstation and set my theme to Clearlooks, and vmware-server-console
> runs fine with the new theme.
> 
> What version of gtk2-engines do you have installed and what is on line
> 34 of /usr/share/themes/Clearlooks/gtk-2.0/gtkrc?  My copy (from version
> 1:2.8.2-1) doesn't have a @ anywhere in the file.

gtk2-engines 1:2.10.2-2 (the latest from unstable). Interestingly, on my
lenny system gtk2-engines is at version 1:2.10.2-1, and
vmware-server-console runs fine. The lenny system is headless and
doesn't run X, so I'm running it via X forwarding.

On my sid system, if I run

VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=no vmware-server-console

the gtkrc error goes away (although it silently fails to launch still),
leading me to think that the gtkrc error is caused by
vmware-server-console attempting to read my system's gtkrc theme files
with it's older bundled version of the gtk libraries?

The failing to launch might be a separate issue.

James
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