Public bug reported:
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.
** Affects: vmware-player (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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No error message when file fails to read
https://launchpad.net/bugs/64727
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