This happens on Gentoo’s vmware-workstation ebuild installation, like explained here and here the problem is you have dbus running, but not hal, simply add hal to your default startup:
rc-update add hald default
run it:
/etc/init.d/hald start
and retry the drill with vmware.
[...] Putting the error message into google brought up this little important piece of information: http://linxtrix.com/2008/03/15/vmware-d-bus-not-built-with-rdynamic-so-unable-to-print-a-backtrace/ [...]
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