Fedora 8 and VMware

[Greg Sieranski]

Ian Burrell wrote:
> Greg Sieranski <greg.sieranski <at> quoininc.com> writes:
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>> 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
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> There was a thread[1] on the VMware forums that discussed this error.  The
> workaround is to add "VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=no" to the command-line. 
> "VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=no vmware".  My guess of the cause is that the libraries
> shipped with VMware are not compatible with the libraries shipped by Fedora 8. 
> It is probably that the libgnome-vfs.so, dynamically loaded by gtk, needs a
> symbol not provided by the old version of GTK available with VMware.  The
> solution is to use the system GTK.
>
>  - Ian
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> [1] http://communities.vmware.com/thread/104553
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You are a life saver. That worked perfectly. THANKS!!!

gs