Errors, VMWare Tools

[Marjean]

I am in Event Viewer in Windows XP, and in 2 days, there are many VMWare Tools warnings and errors.  What is going on?

[rhidegLS]

Hello,

I had similar issues after Fusion 5->6 upgrade. Since the upgrade I could not use the clipboard between the OSX and the Windows XP guest (this is a must have feature for me).

This was in my event log (sorry for the Hungarian Windows version):

Hibás alkalmazás: vmtoolsd.exe, verzió: 9.6.0.26048, hibás modul: msvcr90.dll, verzió: 9.0.30729.6161, memóriacím: 0x0006ccd5.

I uninstalled two things from my VM:

-Samsung Kies

-Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable - x86 9.0.30729.6161

Now the problem is solved. Probably it will help somebody.

[sohoant]

I don't know why VMWARE didn't answer to this problem. For me, it's a blocking one.

I tried to uninstall "Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable - x86 9.0.30729.6161" but i still have the problem.

Hope that VMWARE will consider this BIG bug

[avanish321]

If you are experiencing a crash for VMware Tools ( VMware Tools core services crash - msvcr90.dll ) , try the following

Go to Virtual Machine settings > Default Applications

Uncheck  the option "Open Mac files and web links using windows applications" .

Close the settings and restart Virtual Machine

[sohoant]

Thanks for your help but i still have the bug :

[critical] [vmusr:Glib-GObject] file ..\..\..\gobject\gsignal.c: line 3062: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

The other error that i have after is, i suppose, link with the first one :

"Impossible de créer l'objet Stratégie de groupe par défaut. Erreur 80070005 d'ouverture de l'objet Stratégie de groupe Stratégie de récupération EFS du domaine dans le domaine LDAP://DC=*****,DC=local."

If you have another solution to try, i'm yours.

[coafark]

I have the same issue since upgrading Workstation to 10.0.1 build-1379776

Event Type: Error
Event Source: VMware Tools
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1000
Date:  1/6/2014
Time:  2:04:55 PM
User:  NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer: AAB000C29DD092D
Description:
[critical] [vmsvc:Glib-GObject] file ..\..\..\gobject\gsignal.c: line 3062: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

============

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: VMware Tools
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1000
Date:  1/6/2014
Time:  2:04:55 PM
User:  NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer: AAB000C29DD092D
Description:
[ warning] [vmsvc:Glib-GObject] invalid (NULL) pointer instance

[mbze430]

I have the exact error message, mentioned above, in the Event Manager for Windows 8.1 Enterprise running on Fusion 6.0.2

[TBone19852]

Same issue here as well.  Does VMWare support not check these posts?  Just let us know you now about the issue and are working on it.  That'd be helpful.  :smileyconfused:

[kelwell]

Fusion 6.0.2 running on MAC OSX 10.8.5. I am having the same issues on some VM's. For now i am just removing the VMware Tools. I really need the ability to copy/paste into and from my VM's.

Hoping for a fix soon!

[adrinux]

Also having this problem on OSX 10.9.1 and Fusion Professional Version 6.0.2 (1398658) host. The errors were in the syslog of an Ubuntu 12.04.3 guest:

Jan 17 11:15:42 ubuntu vmsvc[1643]: [ warning] [GLib-GObject] invalid (NULL) pointer instance

Jan 17 11:15:42 ubuntu vmsvc[1643]: [critical] [GLib-GObject] g_signal_emit_by_name: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

I noticed in another post someone suggested changing the virtual cd/dvd from SATA to IDE interface helped, so trying that now - came up fine on the first reboot, and several after. Who knows if that's just luck or a real fix?! Time will tell.

[TBone19852]

adrinux wrote:

Also having this problem on OSX 10.9.1 and Fusion Professional Version 6.0.2 (1398658) host. The errors were in the syslog of an Ubuntu 12.04.3 guest:

Jan 17 11:15:42 ubuntu vmsvc[1643]: [ warning] [GLib-GObject] invalid (NULL) pointer instance

Jan 17 11:15:42 ubuntu vmsvc[1643]: [critical] [GLib-GObject] g_signal_emit_by_name: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

I noticed in another post someone suggested changing the virtual cd/dvd from SATA to IDE interface helped, so trying that now - came up fine on the first reboot, and several after. Who knows if that's just luck or a real fix?! Time will tell.

I tried just removing them altogether and rebooted.  Still crashing.

[adrinux]

Still working here. Restarted the vm several times with no issues. Also noticed I have the cd/dvd set to 'off' in the settings – which makes the suggestion that this had anything to do with it all the weirder. I'm very sceptical that it's actually worked permanently...

[adrinux]

And it seems the errors still appear in syslog every boot...so no fix.

But it does seemed to have corrected the problem I was having - vagrant constantly getting stuck on 'waiting for boot to finish'. I guess my problem is not related to these errors.

[TBone19852]

adrinux wrote:

And it seems the errors still appear in syslog every boot...so no fix.

But it does seemed to have corrected the problem I was having - vagrant constantly getting stuck on 'waiting for boot to finish'. I guess my problem is not related to these errors.

My biggest issue is that I can't run the Windows apps in the Mac directly.  Not that it's a huge deal, but I'm having to open the VM and run the Apps from there.  I'm slowly learning to live with it.

[alexandremercie]

Hi,

I'm having the same issue:

• Fusion: 6.0.2
• Host: MacOS X 10.9.2
• Guest: Debian 7.4
  • VMware tools 9.6.1.27366 (build-1378637)
  • VM's hw version is 4
  • VMware software version 6 (good)

In guest OS, /var/log/user.log contains the error messages below:

Mar  9 17:05:14 debian-desktop vmusr[4061]: [ warning] [GLib-GObject] invalid (NULL) pointer instance

Mar  9 17:05:14 debian-desktop vmusr[4061]: [critical] [GLib-GObject] g_signal_emit_by_name: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

Mar  9 17:05:14 debian-desktop vmusr[4061]: [ warning] [Gtk] gtk_disable_setlocale() must be called before gtk_init()

Mar  9 17:14:24 debian-desktop mpt-statusd: detected non-optimal RAID status

Mar  9 17:24:24 debian-desktop mpt-statusd: detected non-optimal RAID status

[TBone19852]

Latest update that came out in April resolved my issues!!!!!!!