Can't run vmware as non-root user

dx0r515t · 08-10-2006, 05:25 PM

I have installed vmware workstation 5.0 on slackware 10.2 successfully. I installed everything as root; and now I can only run vmware as the root user. When I try to run vmware as a standard user I get this error:

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/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: error while loading shared libraries: libsigc-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: error while loading shared libraries: libsigc-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I'm pretty sure this is some kind of a permissions error but i'm not exactly sure how to approach this. Here is the permissions on /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware:

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-r-x------ 1 scott users 6469884 2006-08-10 16:27 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware*

And /usr/lib/vmware:

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drwxrwx--- 2 scott users 4096 2006-08-10 16:27 bin/
drwxrwx--- 2 scott users 4096 2006-08-10 16:27 bin-debug/
-rwxrwx--- 1 scott users 615 2006-08-10 16:27 config*
drwxrwx--- 2 scott users 4096 2006-08-10 16:27 configurator/
drwxrwx--- 2 scott users 4096 2006-08-10 16:27 floppies/
drwxrwx--- 2 scott users 4096 2006-08-10 16:26 help/
drwxrwx--- 3 scott users 4096 2006-08-10 16:26 help-guestinstall/
drwxrwx--- 3 scott users 12288 2006-08-10 16:26 help-manual/
drwxrwx--- 2 scott users 4096 2006-08-10 16:27 isoimages/
drwxrwx--- 37 scott users 4096 2006-08-10 16:27 lib/
drwxrwx--- 4 scott users 4096 2006-08-10 16:27 libconf/
drwxrwx--- 4 scott users 4096 2006-08-10 16:27 licenses/
drwxrwx--- 4 scott users 4096 2006-08-10 16:26 messages/
drwxrwx--- 4 scott users 4096 2006-08-10 16:26 modules/
drwxrwx--- 3 scott users 4096 2006-08-10 16:27 share/
drwxrwx--- 2 scott users 4096 2006-08-10 16:26 xkeymap/

I chowned those directories to scott:users (my normal user account) as well as /usr/bin/vmware and ~/.vmware but I still seem to be having permission problems. The error seems to be that I cannot load libsigc-2.0.so.0 as a normal user; what could a work around be? Again when I run vmware as the root user the program works fine.

Just in case it matters i'm running kernel 2.6.17.6 that I downloaded and compiled from kernel.org. In order to get vmware to work with my kernel I had to apply the vmware-any-any-update101.
Thanks.

isuck@linux · 08-10-2006, 07:04 PM

try chmod 755 for the entire folder

dx0r515t · 08-10-2006, 07:43 PM

Well I did chmod 755 to /usr/lib/vmware and ~/.vmware and still the same problem..

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~$ ls -l /usr/lib/vmware
total 72
drwxr-xr-x 2 scott users 4096 2006-08-10 16:27 bin/
drwxr-xr-x 2 scott users 4096 2006-08-10 16:27 bin-debug/
-rwxr-xr-x 1 scott users 615 2006-08-10 16:27 config*
drwxr-xr-x 2 scott users 4096 2006-08-10 16:27 configurator/
drwxr-xr-x 2 scott users 4096 2006-08-10 16:27 floppies/
drwxr-xr-x 2 scott users 4096 2006-08-10 16:26 help/
drwxr-xr-x 3 scott users 4096 2006-08-10 16:26 help-guestinstall/
drwxr-xr-x 3 scott users 12288 2006-08-10 16:26 help-manual/
drwxr-xr-x 2 scott users 4096 2006-08-10 16:27 isoimages/
drwxr-xr-x 37 scott users 4096 2006-08-10 16:27 lib/
drwxr-xr-x 4 scott users 4096 2006-08-10 16:27 libconf/
drwxr-xr-x 4 scott users 4096 2006-08-10 16:27 licenses/
drwxr-xr-x 4 scott users 4096 2006-08-10 16:26 messages/
drwxr-xr-x 4 scott users 4096 2006-08-10 16:26 modules/
drwxr-xr-x 3 scott users 4096 2006-08-10 16:27 share/
drwxr-xr-x 2 scott users 4096 2006-08-10 16:26 xkeymap/

Quote:

~$ ls -l /home/scott/.vmware
total 8
-rwxr-xr-x 1 scott users 73 2006-08-10 16:59 favorites.vmls*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 scott users 1002 2006-08-10 16:59 preferences*

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~$ ls -l /usr/bin/vmware
-rwxr-xr-x 1 scott users 4714 2006-08-10 16:26 /usr/bin/vmware*

What else do I need to chmod?

EDIT: Just discovered that the permissions in the subdirectories in this directory where not being changed. What command can I use to change permissions on a directory and all subdirectories? I've been doing chmod 755 /path/to/dir and chown username:group /path/to/dir but these commands don't seem to be applying the permissions to the subdirectories. How would I make the permission changes to all the subdirectories as well in one command?

Thanks

isuck@linux · 08-10-2006, 08:24 PM

Probably other guys can give you better advise, I use the chmod -R path the R is for recursive. check chmod --help.

dx0r515t · 08-10-2006, 08:31 PM

Thanks for the help I got it working now. The problem was that when I was applying the permissions on /usr/lib/vmware the permissions were not being applied to the subdirectories. Now that I have changed the permissions on the subdirectories all seems well as a normal user.

I'm going to have to remember that -R option