Fedora 8 and VMware

Lonni J Friedman netllama at gmail.com
Mon Nov 12 17:32:59 UTC 2007


On 11/12/07, Greg Sieranski <greg.sieranski at quoininc.com> wrote:
> Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > On 11/12/07, Greg Sieranski <greg.sieranski at quoininc.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 11/12/07, Greg Sieranski <greg.sieranski at quoininc.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> When I try to open a virtual machine using either vmware workstation or
> >>>> vmware player, vmware crashes and exits. I am running 64 bit Fedora
> >>>> 8(2.6.23.1-49) and VMWare-Workstation 6.0.2-59824.x86_64 on a T60p. I
> >>>> ran the latest vmware-any-any update114. Has any one had this problem or
> >>>> know of any possible causes?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> The guest OS is crashing, or the VMware application is crashing?  Are
> >>> there any crash errors or messages?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >> The application crashes with the following message:
> >> /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: symbol lookup error:
> >> /usr/lib64/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/filesystems/libgnome-vfs.so: undefined symbol:
> >> g_get_user_special_dir
> >>
> >
> > ugh.  I think only vmware can fix this.  the any-any updates are just
> > for the kernel bits & vmware-config.pl portion, but this is a problem
> > with the GUI side.
> >
> >
> >
> Could it be that I am missing a library? I know when I installed vmware
> and ran the any-any-update it told me that I was missing libXtst.so. I
> d/l it and installed it but I am wondering if maybe there are more
> libraries I need?

I doubt it.  libgnome-vfs.so is part of libgnomeui


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