On Debian sid 5.2.0 kernel vmware-modconfig fails with GLib-CRITICAL **: 22:08:25.546: g_file_test: assertion 'filename != NULL' failed #35
Description
Essentially the kernel modules can not be compiled by the vmware installer
scripts due to some Glibc issues. Even tried manually to work around the
installer script thus :
styx#
styx# PREFIX="/usr" ; export PREFIX
styx# BINDIR="/usr/bin" ; export BINDIR
styx# SBINDIR="/usr/sbin" ; export SBINDIR
styx# LIBDIR="/usr/lib" ; export LIBDIR
styx# DATADIR="/usr/share" ; export DATADIR
styx# SYSCONFDIR="/etc" ; SYSCONFDIR
-bash: SYSCONFDIR: command not found
styx# SYSCONFDIR="/etc" ; export SYSCONFDIR
styx# DOCDIR="/usr/share/doc" ; export DOCDIR
styx# MANDIR="/usr/share/man" ; export MANDIR
styx# INCLUDEDIR="/usr/include" ; export INCLUDEDIR
styx# INITDIR="/etc" ; export INITDIR
styx# INITSCRIPTDIR="/etc/init.d" ; export INITSCRIPTDIR
styx#
styx# VMWARE_INSTALLER="/usr/lib/vmware-installer/2.1.0" ; export VMWARE_INSTALLER
styx# VERSION="2.1.0" ; export VERSION
styx# VMISBUILDNUM="7305623" ; export VMISBUILDNUM
styx# VMISPYVERSION="27" ; export VMISPYVERSION
styx#
styx# /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-modconfig-console --install-all
[AppLoader] GLib does not have GSettings support.
(process:7910): GLib-CRITICAL **: 22:08:25.546: g_file_test: assertion 'filename != NULL' failed
Failed to setup build environment.
styx#
styx# ls -lap /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-modconfig-console
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Aug 19 18:11 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-modconfig-console -> /usr/lib/vmware/bin/appLoader
The workstation version was 14.1.7 and this took hours to arrive at a no-go situation.