VMware Server Console hangs on launch with bad pointer message from glibc
Bug #174098 reported by
Tristan Schmelcher
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| vmware-server (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: vmware-server
(Not sure if this is where I report this, it's something that needs to get to VMware itself.)
I have an up-to-date i686 gutsy install. I have just installed vmware-server from APT (the new -1gutsy2 version released today). The VMware Server Console hangs on launch every time. Running it from the console, I see that glibc outputs a bad pointer message, together with lots of debugging info. If I strace it, the last syscall is a wait(), so probably it does wait() on a bad pointer and so never wakes up.
My machine is a Dell XPS M1710 laptop with an NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS. Note that I am using TwinView. This set-up has worked fine with VMware Server for me in the past.
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FYI, the bug also occurs with VMware's tar installer, except that after Force-Quiting the window it relaunches automatically and then works. (That is the same behaviour as I saw with the tar install on my Ubuntu dapper computer at work when I used to use VMware Server there.)