VMWare Workstation 14.1.3 installation UI fails to initialize

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#1

Hi all,

I am officially migrating to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed from windows and so far everything has been very smooth, however I can’t seem to be able to install the VMWare Workstation Pro despite many attempts.

As with any other installation I did the proper research into its installation before going ahead with the actual installation and in this case I found and followed this particular one.

As stated in the link, I did install the required packages, however, the problem is when I want to run the installation ***after ***giving the installation file execution permissions I get a message stating: “User interface initialization failed. Exiting. Check the log for details.”

The log file in question seems to be sitting under /tmp folder but the contents fail to help me identify the issue. What follows are the contents of the log file:

2018-09-19T21:29:39.506+01:00| vthread-1| I125: Log for VMware Workstation pid=5969 version=14.1.0 build=build-7305623 option=Release
2018-09-19T21:29:39.506+01:00| vthread-1| I125: The process is 64-bit.
2018-09-19T21:29:39.506+01:00| vthread-1| I125: Host codepage=UTF-8 encoding=UTF-8
2018-09-19T21:29:39.506+01:00| vthread-1| I125: Host is Linux 4.18.7-1-default openSUSE Tumbleweed
2018-09-19T21:29:39.506+01:00| host-139968950833344| I125: DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file “/etc/vmware/config”: No such file or directory.
2018-09-19T21:29:39.506+01:00| host-139968950833344| I125: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file “/etc/vmware/config”: No such file or directory.
2018-09-19T21:29:39.506+01:00| host-139968950833344| I125: PREF Optional preferences file not found at /etc/vmware/config. Using default values.
2018-09-19T21:29:39.506+01:00| host-139968950833344| I125: DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file “/usr/lib/vmware/settings”: No such file or directory.
2018-09-19T21:29:39.506+01:00| host-139968950833344| I125: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file “/usr/lib/vmware/settings”: No such file or directory.
2018-09-19T21:29:39.506+01:00| host-139968950833344| I125: PREF Optional preferences file not found at /usr/lib/vmware/settings. Using default values.
2018-09-19T21:29:39.506+01:00| host-139968950833344| I125: DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file “/usr/lib/vmware/config”: No such file or directory.
2018-09-19T21:29:39.506+01:00| host-139968950833344| I125: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file “/usr/lib/vmware/config”: No such file or directory.
2018-09-19T21:29:39.506+01:00| host-139968950833344| I125: PREF Optional preferences file not found at /usr/lib/vmware/config. Using default values.
2018-09-19T21:29:39.506+01:00| host-139968950833344| I125: DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file “/home/taker/.vmware/config”: No such file or directory.
2018-09-19T21:29:39.506+01:00| host-139968950833344| I125: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file “/home/taker/.vmware/config”: No such file or directory.
2018-09-19T21:29:39.506+01:00| host-139968950833344| I125: PREF Optional preferences file not found at /home/taker/.vmware/config. Using default values.
2018-09-19T21:29:39.506+01:00| host-139968950833344| I125: DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file “/home/taker/.vmware/preferences”: No such file or directory.
2018-09-19T21:29:39.506+01:00| host-139968950833344| I125: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file “/home/taker/.vmware/preferences”: No such file or directory.
2018-09-19T21:29:39.506+01:00| host-139968950833344| I125: PREF Optional preferences file not found at /home/taker/.vmware/preferences. Using default values.

I did some more searches online but nothing I found was relevant to my particular log file entries so I decided to post here.

Any help is much appreciated.

Cheers.

#2

hi there, try switch to root by doing:
$su -

then run the installer again. cheers

#3

Hi there,

Thank you for the tip, it did do it like a charm!

If you don’t mind me asking, so why didn’t the good old “sudo” and then the location of the installer do it?

Sorry if that is too elementary, but as I mentioned I am new to Linux and would love to learn the reason behind it as well.

Cheers.

#4

sudo is not su -l or su -

See man su or man sudo.

Also the $PATH is not the same, see:

sudo echo $PATH

or

su -
echo $PATH