[Intrepid] VMware Server Console failed to start

Bug #287259 reported by louis
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: vmware-package

On my amd64 system server-console failed to start. I create the package with vmare-package.

/usr/lib/vmware-server-console/bin/vmware-server-console: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib32/libgio-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_thread_gettime

I think that is a wrong symbolic link?

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kibe (b-kix) wrote :

Same problem here..

There's no difference in x86 or x86_64..
and its not only with build deb package.. same error when installing tar.gz

bkix@bkix ~ % vmware-server-console
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
/usr/lib/vmware-server-console/bin/vmware-server-console: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_thread_gettime

----->
bkix@bkix ~ % ls -lah /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2008-10-27 09:55 /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0 -> libgio-2.0.so.0.1800.2
<----
----->
bkix@bkix ~ % ldd /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0.1800.2
        linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb8024000)
        libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0xb7ef0000)
        libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0xb7eb2000)
        libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0xb7eac000)
        libselinux.so.1 => /lib/libselinux.so.1 (0xb7e92000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7d34000)
        libpcre.so.3 => /lib/libpcre.so.3 (0xb7d0a000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb7d06000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb8025000)
<----

Changed in vmware-package:
status: New → Confirmed
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madmax-77 (maxml) wrote :

I have the same problem on my Intrepid Ibex.
But if I start VMWare console as root (sudo ./vmware-server-console) it works.
When I retry with my normal user, the owner of $HOME/.vmware/preferences has changed to root.root, and the program start up fails.

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fhuet (pou-belle) wrote :

I have the same problem madmax : no problem as root but "Segmentation fault /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_thread_gettime" as user. Is there a problem with vmware-update-2.6.27-5.5.7-2.tar.gz ? I have found this patch on insecure.ws : have you got a link to that file on vmware.com ?
Thanks !

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Hervé Fache (rvfh) wrote :

Looks like VMWare are shipping their own libs for many things, including Glib/GTK, but fail to include libgio. This fails because their libglib/libgthread and our libgio are not from the same package AFAICT.

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MonariAlx (monarialx) wrote :

I've replaced some libraries under /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/lib with older ones (taken from Hardy).
- libglib-2.0.so.0
- libgmodule-2.0.so.0
- libgobject-2.0.so.0
- libgthread-2.0.so.0
- libXrender.so.1
- libgio-2.0.so.0 <== NEW
- libX11.so.6 <== NEW
I also patched /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/lib/wrapper-gtk24.sh to preload the NEW ones.

Now with

 VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK="force" vmware-server-console

everything works again.

More details and files to download here: http://www.monarialx.it/en/node/121

HTH

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kgoeser (kevin-kevin-online) wrote :

The tgz install / update of MonariAlx worked for me - thx!

tags: added: jaunty
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Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote :

This package has been removed from Ubuntu. Closing all related bugs.

Changed in vmware-package (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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