vmware workstation / player font issue (square characters instead of text)

[hansemschnokeloch]

Describe the bug

Fonts are missing, square characters are displayed

Steps To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Install vmware-workstation
2. Start vmware workstation or player

Additional context

I started a discussion on https://discourse.nixos.org/t/font-issue-with-vmware-workstation/19669

Notify maintainers

/cc @deinferno

Metadata

[user@system:~]$ nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m"
 - system: `"x86_64-linux"`
 - host os: `Linux 5.15.43, NixOS, 22.05 (Quokka), 22.05.714.e5556c75ac0`
 - multi-user?: `yes`
 - sandbox: `yes`
 - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.8.1`
 - channels(root): `"nixos-22.05"`
 - nixpkgs: `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos`

[deinferno]

I can reproduce this, probably related to some missing font in freshly installed systems

[hansemschnokeloch]

I launched vmware with FC_DEBUG=8, but I'm not able to interpret these errors messages, hope this can help

FC_DEBUG=8
adding fonts from /usr/share/fonts
cache scan dir /usr/share/fonts
adding fonts from /home/pascal/.local/share/fonts
cache scan dir /home/pascal/.local/share/fonts
adding fonts from /home/pascal/.fonts
cache scan dir /home/pascal/.fonts
FontSet 0 of 0
/nix/store/v5yhx9hp13dy9hzil83xwgbrzp7c8gni-dconf-0.40.0-lib/lib/gio/modules/libdconfsettings.so: undefined symbol: g_log_structured_standard
Failed to load module: /nix/store/v5yhx9hp13dy9hzil83xwgbrzp7c8gni-dconf-0.40.0-lib/lib/gio/modules/libdconfsettings.so
'g_io_module_load': /nix/store/z4yprly9sv4gp672nxizig0x5dn5bd8c-glib-networking-2.72.0/lib/gio/modules/libgioenvironmentproxy.so: undefined symbol: g_io_module_load
Failed to load module: /nix/store/z4yprly9sv4gp672nxizig0x5dn5bd8c-glib-networking-2.72.0/lib/gio/modules/libgioenvironmentproxy.so
/nix/store/z4yprly9sv4gp672nxizig0x5dn5bd8c-glib-networking-2.72.0/lib/gio/modules/libgiognomeproxy.so: undefined symbol: g_task_set_name
Failed to load module: /nix/store/z4yprly9sv4gp672nxizig0x5dn5bd8c-glib-networking-2.72.0/lib/gio/modules/libgiognomeproxy.so
/nix/store/z4yprly9sv4gp672nxizig0x5dn5bd8c-glib-networking-2.72.0/lib/gio/modules/libgiognutls.so: undefined symbol: g_byte_array_steal
Failed to load module: /nix/store/z4yprly9sv4gp672nxizig0x5dn5bd8c-glib-networking-2.72.0/lib/gio/modules/libgiognutls.so
/nix/store/jang67xg1fidp5zpd146f3v14978hhwr-vmware-workstation-16.2.3/lib/vmware/lib/libstdc++.so.6/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.29' not found (required by /nix/store/p9p9wbgfjc6v23q9lrp5p4201h4pzcgr-libproxy-0.4.17/lib/libproxy.so.1)
Failed to load module: /nix/store/z4yprly9sv4gp672nxizig0x5dn5bd8c-glib-networking-2.72.0/lib/gio/modules/libgiolibproxy.so
/nix/store/dbqgkps4h076lkavi46ms3zzwl8q2wnv-gvfs-1.50.2/lib/gvfs/libgvfscommon.so: undefined symbol: g_task_set_name
Failed to load module: /nix/store/dbqgkps4h076lkavi46ms3zzwl8q2wnv-gvfs-1.50.2/lib/gio/modules/libgioremote-volume-monitor.so
/nix/store/dbqgkps4h076lkavi46ms3zzwl8q2wnv-gvfs-1.50.2/lib/gvfs/libgvfscommon.so: undefined symbol: g_task_set_name
Failed to load module: /nix/store/dbqgkps4h076lkavi46ms3zzwl8q2wnv-gvfs-1.50.2/lib/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so

[nixos-discourse]

This issue has been mentioned on NixOS Discourse. There might be relevant details there:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/font-issue-with-vmware-workstation/19669/6

[deinferno]

I found reason for missing fonts, it just loads fonts.conf from lib/vmware/libconf/etc/fonts/fonts.conf instead of system path and vmware's config points to wrong FHS paths, removing file fixes it, i will make a PR with fix, thanks.

[hansemschnokeloch]

I confirm that deleting lib/vmware/libconf/etc/fonts/fonts.conf fixes the issue.
Thanks a lot !