Gtk-WARNINGs while installing and/or starting up VMware
Solution 1
I solved this error by installing murrine-themes
from synaptic or command line by:
sudo apt-get install murrine-themes
Packages gtk2-engines-murrine
and libcanberra-gtk-module
were already installed.
Solution 2
The error is self explanatory that required module is not installed.
Try installing the module, that should fix the error.
sudo apt-get install libcanberra-gtk-module
Note: Since VMware provides you a .bundle file which is basically an executable, it will not check the repository and install the required packages. Whenever dealing with .run or .bundle executable its best to read the README for dependencies and install them.
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meccooll
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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meccooll over 1 year
Keep getting these errors when trying to install VMware player on 16.04 i can ignore them and push through but then VMware pegs the CPU every 10min
sudo ./VMware-Player-12.1.1-3770994.x86_64.bundle Extracting VMware Installer...done.
(vmware-installer.py:15056): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "murrine",
... (repeat 20 times) ...
(vmware-installer.py:15056): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "murrine",
(vmware-installer.py:15056): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "murrine", Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
$ sudo apt-get install libcanberra-gtk-module Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done libcanberra-gtk-module is already the newest version (0.30-2.1ubuntu1). libcanberra-gtk-module set to manually installed. The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libpango1.0-0 libpangox-1.0-0 Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
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dufte over 7 yearsJust to be sure - you see those errors, but the install itself is finishing and VMware itself works, right? I am asking as i am running vmware myself since years and do see the murrine errors as well if i startup VMware from cli - but without effects.
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meccooll over 7 yearsYes i can push through but like you would get the errors every time i start the player from cli
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meccooll over 7 yearssays i already got the newest version
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Nisheet over 7 yearsOkay not sure whether this is applicable with the new version as well, here is an excerpt from the VmWare community page: As for the GTK errors re: canberra-gtk-module, they're innocuous. You may ignore them. Source: link
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Nisheet over 7 yearsCan you try
sudo apt-get install libcanberra-gtk*
once. Seen this solution on a couple of pages to work for whom installing libcanberra-gtk-module did not work..