application dies with 'VMware: vmw_ioctl_command error Invalid argument.'

this is the console listing.

Line "VMware: vmw_ioctl_command error Invalid argument." say that you have problem in MESA. Just try run glxgears through CLI.

ran glxgears. seemed to run fine. console output was:

jstokes@ubuntu1604:~$ glxgears
3798 frames in 5.0 seconds = 759.550 FPS
4412 frames in 5.0 seconds = 882.319 FPS
3956 frames in 5.0 seconds = 791.117 FPS
4788 frames in 5.0 seconds = 957.499 FPS
4162 frames in 5.0 seconds = 832.201 FPS
4237 frames in 5.0 seconds = 847.175 FPS
3968 frames in 5.0 seconds = 793.466 FPS
4559 frames in 5.0 seconds = 911.780 FPS
3651 frames in 5.0 seconds = 730.083 FPS
4633 frames in 5.0 seconds = 926.422 FPS
4094 frames in 5.0 seconds = 818.712 FPS
4506 frames in 5.0 seconds = 901.122 FPS
^C
jstokes@ubuntu1604:~$

does this help at all?

On 5/2/2016 1:02 PM, Alexander Wolf wrote:
> Line "VMware: vmw_ioctl_command error Invalid argument." say that you
> have problem in MESA. Just try run glxgears through CLI.
>

here's some additional data -
ran stellarium to dump opengl data:

thanks.
------------------------------------------------------------

jstokes@ubuntu1604:~$ stellarium --dump-opengl-details

** (stellarium:2229): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus:
Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-NnTQDAM129: Connection refused
  -------------------------------------------------------
[ This is Stellarium 0.14.3 - http://www.stellarium.org ]
[ Copyright (C) 2000-2016 Fabien Chereau et al. ]
  -------------------------------------------------------
Writing log file to: "/home/jstokes/.stellarium/log.txt"
File search paths:
   0 . "/home/jstokes/.stellarium"
   1 . "/usr/share/stellarium"
Config file is: "/home/jstokes/.stellarium/config.ini"
Detected: OpenGL "3.0"
Driver version string: "3.0 Mesa 11.2.0"
GL vendor is "VMware, Inc."
GL renderer is "Gallium 0.4 on SVGA3D; build: RELEASE; LLVM;"
GL Shading Language version is "1.30"
initializeOpenGLFunctions()...
OpenGL Features:
  - glActiveTexture() function is available.
  - Shader functions are available.
  - Vertex and index buffer functions are available.
  - Framebuffer object functions are available.
  - glBlendColor() is available.
  - glBlendEquation() is available.
  - glBlendEquationSeparate() is available.
  - glBlendFuncSeparate() is available.
  - Blend subtract mode is available.
  - Compressed texture functions are available.
  - glSampleCoverage() function is available.
  - Separate stencil functions are available.
  - Non power of two textures are available.
  - Non power of two textures can use GL_REPEAT as wrap parameter.
  - The fixed function pipeline is available.
OpenGL shader capabilities and details:
  - Vertex Shader: YES
  - Fragment Shader: YES
  - Geometry Shader: NO
  - TessellationControl Shader: NO
  - TessellationEvaluation Shader: NO
  - Compute Shader: NO
We have 183 OpenGL extensions:
  - "GL_AMD_conservative_depth"
  - "GL_AMD_shader_trinary_minmax"
  - "GL_ANGLE_texture_compression_dxt3"
  - "GL_ANGLE_texture_compression_dxt5"
  - "GL_APPLE_packed_pixels"
  - "GL_APPLE_vertex_array_object"
  - "GL_ARB_ES2_compatibility"
  - "GL_ARB_ES3_compatibility"
  - "GL_ARB_arrays_of_arrays"
  - "GL_ARB_blend_func_extended"
  - "GL_ARB_clear_buffer_object"
  - "GL_ARB_color_buffer_float"
  - "GL_ARB_compressed_texture_pixel_storage"
  - "GL_ARB_conservative_depth"
  - "GL_ARB_copy_buffer"
  - "GL_ARB_debug_output"
  - "GL_ARB_depth_buffer_float"
  - "GL_ARB_depth_clamp"
  - "GL_ARB_depth_texture"
  - "GL_ARB_draw_buffers"
  - "GL_ARB_draw_elements_base_vertex"
  - "GL_ARB_draw_instanced"
  - "GL_ARB_explicit_attrib_location"
  - "GL_ARB_explicit_uniform_location"
  - "GL_ARB_fragment_coord_conventions"
  - "GL_ARB_fragment_program"
  - "GL_ARB_fragment_program_shadow"
  - "GL_ARB_fragment_shader"
  - "GL_ARB_framebuffer_object"
  - "GL_ARB_framebuffer_sRGB"
  - "GL_ARB_get_program_binary"
  - "GL_ARB_get_texture_sub_image"
  - "GL_ARB_half_float_pixel"
  - "GL_ARB_half_float_vertex"
  - "GL_ARB_instanced_arrays"
  - "GL_ARB_internalformat_query"
  - "GL_ARB_invalidate_subdata"
  - "GL_ARB_map_buffer_alignment"
  - "GL_ARB_map_buffer_range"
  - "GL_ARB...

Can you install debug edition of Stellarium from our nightly PPA and run it via gdb?

Gazebo crashes with the same error message. (Clean Ubuntu 16.04 and ROS Kinetic Kame install in VMware Fusion Professional Version 8.1.1 (3771013) )

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Blender, Ubuntu 16.04 package (or the original from blender.org)
frequently crashes in the VMware 12.1.1 with the same error message:

VMware: vmw_ioctl_command error Invalid argument.

see also https://communities.vmware.com/thread/537924?start=0&tstart=0

The kernel log error after the crash:
[ 7522.003251] [drm:vmw_execbuf_process [vmwgfx]] *ERROR* Invalid SVGA3D command: 1181

and an another similar issue:
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/unity-editor-5-4-0b18-crashes-in-ubuntu-16-04-after-start.409570/

apt-file search vmwgfx

libdrm-dev: /usr/include/libdrm/vmwgfx_drm.h
libgl1-mesa-dri: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/vmwgfx_dri.so
...

I'm seeing the same error when trying to open a contact in the Evolution groupware suite. The full error is:

openjdk version "1.8.0_91"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_91-8u91-b14-3ubuntu1~16.04.1-b14)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.91-b14, mixed mode)
VMware: vmw_ioctl_command error Invalid argument.
Aborted

Looks like a Java error from this perspective. I don't exactly know where to report this, here, VMware or OpenJDK.

I had the same issue trying to use Gazebo along with ROS.

My solution was to downgrade OpenGL from 3.3 to 2.1 as written here: http://www.mesa3d.org/vmware-guest.html

Info:
* Ubuntu 14.04
* VMware Fusion 8

[quote]
OpenGL 3.3 support can be disabled by setting the environment variable SVGA_VGPU10=0. You will then have OpenGL 2.1 support. This may be useful to work around application bugs (such as incorrect use of the OpenGL 3.x core profile).
[/quote]

So do the following:
$ echo "export SVGA_VGPU10=0" >> ~/.bashrc

Can somebody with a VM confirm this is a solution for Stellarium?

Hugo Roddes solutions works for me.

Thanks!

Info:

Ubuntu 16.04
VMware Fusion 8.5.3

Sorry, I have just spotted that this thread is for Stellarium but I run Gazebo simulator and encountered the same issue. The solution fixed the issue for me with Gazebo.

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

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Not a blender issue, but a mesa issue.

The used Ubuntu version (16.04) is obsolete, also mesa was updated (from 11.2.0 as per report to 18.0.5-0ubuntu0~16.04.1 in 2018), can you check if the problem is still reproducible with the newer mesa or on a newer Ubuntu?