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blelump

Member

Registered: 2007-09-28

Posts: 13

vmware server from aur

Hi all,

Recently Im trying get the vmware server to work. Both vmware-server 1.0.8_126538-1 as well as vmware-server-modules 1.0.8_126538-1 have built correctly. The issue appears when I try run the server:

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

And an additional info that might help:

$ pacman -Qo /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0
/usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0 is owned by glib2 2.18.3-1

Also I know that it works fine on my friend machine (packages updated to head as well as mine).

I've found an issue connected with my problem submitted on gnome bugzilla: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=543234 but the fix doesn't help.

ss2

Member

Registered: 2007-10-05

Posts: 83

Re: vmware server from aur

So I'm not alone trying to get VMware working again.

I first thought of updating the PKGBUIlDs to the latest release of VMware and Linux and then would have scrapped some patches together.
However, I haven't found a working solution for that yet, so I'm going to downgrade my kernel to 26 and try it from there. That will be much easier as there are existing patches in the net to get it working with that kernel.

The problem is, that since version 2 has been released, the 1.x branch doesn't seem to be supported anymore.

Anyway, how did you compile it against 2.6.27?
Would you mind sharing your PKGBUILDS?

Regards