Comment 4 for bug 770625

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Kenneth Rawlings (rawlink) wrote : Re: overlay-scrollbar_0.1.9-0ubuntu1 update causes vmware workstation to crash when resuming and pausing virtual machines.

On the forums in response to my suggestion to downgrade the lib, Heroprotago suggests using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable to force vmware to use the glib it is shipped with.

export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0/libglib-2.0.so.0

He suggests putting this in the vmware shell script. I would recommend creating your own shell script that exports this environment variable and calls the vmware script so it is persistent across vmware upgrades.

Visit the following links for information:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10721766&postcount=17
http://developers-developers-developers.blogspot.com/2011/04/ubuntu-1104-vmware-player-dies-when.html

It is a usable workaround while waiting for a fix.