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Notes for 12.0.1-2 [edit: applicable to 12.0.5-1]:

• You need to download the VMware-Remote-Console .bundle from https://www.vmware.com/go/download-vmrc and place it in the same directory as the PKGBUILD.

• vmware-keymaps has been made an optional dependency. vmrc will run fine without it, although I imagine how well it works may depend on your keyboard setup. Making it an optional dependency removes the problem of conflicting files between vmware packages, but also lets those who don't need it ignore it.

tried to add remote address to whitelist, while connecting via chromium but still only a second or so opens in background and then closes

@plazotronik Thanks! I'll look more into it. If anyone has any comments about it, I'd be interested in hearing them.

@richardjs from chocolate repo (win). in install script - https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/vmrc#files

@plazotronik That's... a good question. It could be an improvement. Where is that link from?

@richardjs why not use the simple path - https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/vmrc/12.0.5/22744838/linux/VMware-VMRC.tar ? tar contains the necessary bundle.

I was having the same issue, and found a more targeted, temporary fix (for my system).

Running strace on vmrc I found:

[pid  5349] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/icons/Adwaita/symbolic/devices/network-wired-symbolic.svg", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 11
[pid  5349] statx(11, "", AT_STATX_SYNC_AS_STAT|AT_EMPTY_PATH, STATX_TYPE, {stx_mask=STATX_ALL|STATX_MNT_ID, stx_attributes=0, stx_mode=S_IFREG|0644, stx_size=666, ...}) = 0
[pid  5349] read(11, "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UT"..., 8192) = 666
[pid  5349] read(11, "", 8192)          = 0
[pid  5349] close(11)                   = 0
[pid  5349] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/icons/Adwaita/symbolic/devices/network-wired-symbolic.svg", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 11
[pid  5349] statx(11, "", AT_STATX_SYNC_AS_STAT|AT_EMPTY_PATH, STATX_TYPE, {stx_mask=STATX_ALL|STATX_MNT_ID, stx_attributes=0, stx_mode=S_IFREG|0644, stx_size=666, ...}) = 0
[pid  5349] read(11, "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UT"..., 65536) = 666
[pid  5349] read(11, "", 65536)         = 0
[pid  5349] close(11)                   = 0
[pid  5349] --- SIGSEGV {si_signo=SIGSEGV, si_code=SEGV_MAPERR, si_addr=0x5c} ---
[pid  5349] geteuid()                   = ****
[pid  5349] getpid()                    = 5349
[pid  5349] getpid()                    = 5349
[pid  5349] gettid()                    = 5349
[pid  5349] write(16, "2023-11-09T23:33:53Z[+0.000] Wa("..., 80) = 80
[pid  5349] write(16, "2023-11-09T23:33:53Z[+0.000] In("..., 106) = 106
[pid  5349] write(16, "2023-11-09T23:33:53Z[+0.000] In("..., 123) = 123
[pid  5349] write(16, "2023-11-09T23:33:53Z[+0.000] In("..., 172) = 172
[pid  5349] write(16, "2023-11-09T23:33:53Z[+0.000] In("..., 108) = 108

Since i seemed to segfault right after reading that icon file, I checked the pacman log and noted that I had updated some Adwaita packages just before this issue started occurring. After downgrading adwaita-cursors and adwaita-icon-theme to version 44.0-1 vmrc began to work again.

I was having the same issue for while and trying and failing to install vmware-workstation fixed it (it failed since many of the files are already owned by vmware-vmrc). Sure seems like the cause is the missing config files.

Weird. So I tried to install "aur/vmware-workstation" from the aur and the Remote Console just started working. Although it failed and did not install, it seemed to create the missing ".vmware/preferences" file that vmrc was complaining about. And possibly other missing config files.

So I guess there is some missing dependencies.

defaults are used when those files are not present. see log

From log: /tmp/vmware-ihab/vmware-vmrc-20644.log

2023-11-05T01:32:20.925Z In(05) vmrc WQPoolAllocPoll : pollIx = 1, signalHandle = 11
2023-11-05T01:32:20.925Z In(05) vmrc DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/usr/lib/vmware/settings": No such file or directory.

Also this:

DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/home/ihab/.vmware/config": No such file or directory.

Could it be that the missing "/usr/lib/vmware/settings" file be causing the signal 11 error?