Fedora 8 and VMware

Lonni J Friedman netllama at gmail.com
Mon Nov 12 17:22:37 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:
> >
> >> 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.


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