Ubuntu
vmware-player package

No error message when file fails to read

Bug #64727 reported by Danny Staple
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vmware-player (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
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Bug Description

In vmware-player, if the ~/.vmware/preferences file is owned by someone other than the user running it, say root, then the vmware player will simply silently fail.

You will not see any error messages (apart from a misleading red herring about libpng versions, which should be ignored for most vmware-player problems as far as I can see).

Vmplayer will just do nothing. It was only by hacking the wrapper-gtk24.sh script to run an interactive bash shell, and stracing the real vmplayer binary that I was able to determine that this was the fault.

The software should output an error message about the file open failure before it exits.

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Danny Staple (danny-orionrobots) wrote :

I have also reported this on the VMTN discussion forums as http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=57468.

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VMware Build Team (vmware-builds) wrote :

This doesn't seem to affect Player 2.0.

Changed in vmware-player:
status: Unconfirmed → Fix Released
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