prelink breaks VMware 4.5.2 on FC2?

[dsavage at peaknet.net]

On Monday June 14, 2004 at 12:47 pm "Keith G. Robertson-Turner"
<fedora-forums at genesis-x.nildram.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:00:10 +0100, D. D. Brierton wrote:
>
> su -
> ### save this to plbl-vmware.sh
> ### then sh plbl-vmware.sh
> export	vmpath=`which vmware | xargs dirname` &&\
> 	echo "#VMWare blacklist"  >>/etc/prelink.conf &&\
> 	file $vmpath/vm{net*,ware*} |\
> 	grep ELF |\
> 	sed -e "s/:.*//g" |\
> 	sed -e "s/^/-b /g" >>/etc/prelink.conf && \
> 	find /lib/modules/`uname -r` -name vmmon.o |\
> 	sed -e "s/^/-b /g" >>/etc/prelink.conf &&\
> 	find /lib/modules/`uname -r` -name vmnet.o |\
> 	sed -e "s/^/-b /g" >>/etc/prelink.conf
> exit
> ###
>
> Make sure you have a version of prelink that supports blacklists. I've
> been rolling my own for a while now, so I haven't been keeping up with the
> changelogs in the main release. Maybe this is already done, but just in
> case, here's a link to the development version:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/2efsx/prelink-0.3.2-3.i386.rpm (redhat.com)
>
>> Ideally applications which don't work with prelink should have a
>> post-install script in their RPM which adds the relevant blacklist lines
>> to /etc/prelink.conf.

Keith,

I'm having what may be a similar problem trying to run FC2 as a trial
guest under FC1 running VMWare v4.5.1-7568. I cannot get the VMware Tools
(needed for runlevel 5) to install under FC2 at runlevel 3. In another
virtual machine with Windows 2000 Pro as a guest, I had no problems with
VMware Tools installation.

Do I need to run your script on the FC2 guest (prelink-0.3.2-1)? Or on the
FC1 host (prelink-0.3.0-13)?

--Doc
Robert G. (Doc) Savage, BSE(EE), CISSP, RHCE | Fairview Heights, IL
Fedora Core 1 kernel 2.4.22-1.2188.nptl on P-III/M IBM Thinkpad A22p
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