TheAsterisk! wrote:Luluc wrote:Whenever I "install" an SFS, my desktop icons get all messy, all over the place. Every time So I run the icons layout manager and reloaded a previous configuration. I did that, and I lost my VMplayer icon.
Hmm...
Of course, you should be able to decline the icon altogether when you run the SFS script, and you can always drag it from /usr/share/applications/ to the desktop by hand.
Is this issue specific to the VMware SFS, or just SFS modules in general?
SFS modules in general.
But I have other problems now. Kind of a long story...
Problem #1: I installed VMplayer successfully in another savefile. A larger one, 1GB, I couldn't make it install in a 512-MB savefile. Then I created the SFS. Everything went fine, I even ran a virtual machine. Then I saved the SFS file elsewhere and... I deleted the savefile. It was just temporary, too big and a little messed up already, for I had been using it as my test bed for many days. I had another small, clean savefile waiting for me.
So I went back to the small, clean savefile and, once again, I had to use the devtools SFS and the kernel source/headers SFS. Everything went ok. But then VMplayer refuses to run, complaining about something to do with Gconf. I didn't have that problem in my old, big and messy savefile. So I installed the HAL pet recommended here, and the problem won't go away. I can't make VMplayer run at all.
Problem #2: every time I boot with the VMplayer SFS loaded in the boot manager, I lose the "spot" user. I cannot 'su spot' anymore, I get some "permission denied" error. I tried creating another user, still no go. If I unload the VMplayer SFS, spot works again on the very next boot. Conversely, if I load it back, spot is broken again on the next boot. I only tested this with the VMplayer and the Wine SFS. The Wine SFS has no harmful effect, it's just VMplayer.
I run Firefox as spot, so it is a big deal for me. I am unable to run my browser with that bug.
I don't know what to do.