Fedora 8 and VMware

[Greg Sieranski]

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?

Thanks,
gs