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dninja

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vmware stopped working

I did an upgrade last night and now vmware has stopped working. I'm getting the following error:

/opt/vmware/lib/bin/vmware: /opt/vmware/lib/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)
process 4337: Attempt to remove filter function 0xb7f81200 user data 0x88165d8, but no such filter has been added
  D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace
/opt/vmware/lib/bin/vmware: /opt/vmware/lib/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)
/opt/vmware/lib/bin/vmware: /opt/vmware/lib/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)
process 4348: Attempt to remove filter function 0xb7fcb200 user data 0x88162a8, but no such filter has been added
  D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace

The kernel is:

Linux rastlin 2.6.19-beyond #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Dec 15 17:41:19 EST 2006 i686 AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

I've tried rerunning  vmware-config.pl but that hasn't fixed it.

Can anyone suggest a way to fix it?

ralvez

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Re: vmware stopped working

same here with the regular kernel.
If I do a dbus-launch vmware I get

dbus-launch vmware
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)

So it seems the latest upgrade has broken libraries needed by vmware.

Any ideas, other than downgrade; which could also prove a problem?

Lone_Wolf

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Re: vmware stopped working

No problem here, try re-starting dbus and all daemons that depend on it.

(rebooting is probably the easiest way to achieve that)

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dninja

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Re: vmware stopped working

I've just done another upgrade and I'm now getting a different error:

 vmware
/opt/vmware/lib/bin/vmware: /opt/vmware/lib/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)
process 4861: Attempt to remove filter function 0xb7ee4200 user data 0x8816668, but no such filter has been added
  /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3 [0xb6c7dcde]
  /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3 [0xb6c7d0c7]
  /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3 [0xb6c715d6]
  /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3(dbus_connection_remove_filter+0x245) [0xb6c4a8f5]
  /usr/lib/libhal.so.1(libhal_ctx_shutdown+0x8c) [0xb7ee417c]
  /opt/vmware/lib/bin/vmware [0x822e8a4]
  /opt/vmware/lib/bin/vmware [0x822d74b]
  /opt/vmware/lib/bin/vmware [0x822c042]
  /opt/vmware/lib/bin/vmware [0x8097adc]
  /opt/vmware/lib/bin/vmware [0x8091a83]
  /opt/vmware/lib/bin/vmware [0x8078675]
  /opt/vmware/lib/bin/vmware [0x8076f99]
  /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xd8) [0xb6fb67c8]
  /opt/vmware/lib/bin/vmware(_ZN3Gtk10CellLayoutD1Ev+0x8d) [0x8076c71]
/opt/vmware/lib/bin/vmware: /opt/vmware/lib/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)
/opt/vmware/lib/bin/vmware: /opt/vmware/lib/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)
process 4872: Attempt to remove filter function 0xb7f0a200 user data 0x8816338, but no such filter has been added
  /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3 [0xb6d6ccde]
  /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3 [0xb6d6c0c7]
  /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3 [0xb6d605d6]
  /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3(dbus_connection_remove_filter+0x245) [0xb6d398f5]
  /usr/lib/libhal.so.1(libhal_ctx_shutdown+0x8c) [0xb7f0a17c]
  /opt/vmware/lib/bin/vmware [0x822e8a4]
  /opt/vmware/lib/bin/vmware [0x822d74b]
  /opt/vmware/lib/bin/vmware [0x822c042]
  /opt/vmware/lib/bin/vmware [0x8097adc]
  /opt/vmware/lib/bin/vmware [0x8091a83]
  /opt/vmware/lib/bin/vmware [0x8078675]
  /opt/vmware/lib/bin/vmware [0x8076f99]
  /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xd8) [0xb6ff47c8]
  /opt/vmware/lib/bin/vmware(_ZN3Gtk10CellLayoutD1Ev+0x8d) [0x8076c71]

I've tried using dbus-launch to start it but that doesn't change anything. I am also having a problem starting gthumb which has to be worked-around by using dbus-launch gthumb so I guess that this is something to do with a broken dbus.

I have started the dbus daemon using the rc.d script.

dninja

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From: Sheffield, UK

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Re: vmware stopped working

I'm still having this problem but I found some info on the gentoo site http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=524533 which suggests turning off dbus (/etc/rc.d/dbus stop) then starting vmware.

vmware now starts but still leaves me with the warning

/opt/vmware/lib/bin/vmware: /opt/vmware/lib/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)

It all seems to be all down to differing version of dbus, libpng and libcairo. If someone finds a permanent fix please let me know.

scarecrow

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Re: vmware stopped working

Do you get this message if you start it with

VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=force vmware

If it does start properly, then I guess you have installed some odd stuff from testing/unstable.
VMware starts fine (and fast) here- with everything grabbed from the stable repos.

Last edited by scarecrow (2007-02-07 16:00:26)

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ralvez

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Re: vmware stopped working

I've used the vmware-any-any-update to correct the problem.
After I run the patch it worked just fine.
Hope this helps.

R

dninja

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Re: vmware stopped working

Do you get this message if you start it with

VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=force vmware

If it does start properly, then I guess you have installed some odd stuff from testing/unstable.
VMware starts fine (and fast) here- with everything grabbed from the stable repos.

I've just done another distro upgrade and dbus has been upgraded. I now don't have to stop dbus before starting vmware but I still get the warning.

I haven't installed anything for anything other than the standard repos apart from vmware which is straight out of abs.

aRcHaTe

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Re: vmware stopped working

Unable to find the answer SBINDIR in the installer database
(/etc/vmware/locations).  You may want to re-install VMware Workstation.

Execution aborted.

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kishd

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Re: vmware stopped working

Have you tried running vmware-config.pl as root again?

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aRcHaTe

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Re: vmware stopped working

yes..

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kishd

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Re: vmware stopped working

Try renaming /opt/vmware/lib/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0 to lbpng12so.0.bak and creating a symbolic link from /opt/vmware/lib/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0 pointing to /usr/lib/libpng.so

This worked for me.

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dninja

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Re: vmware stopped working

I'm still having to stop dbus before starting vmware.

Has anyone found a way round this?

dninja

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Re: vmware stopped working

pat, ye, I found that solution somewhere else and it has been working for me. Sorry I didn't post it back to here.

voidzero

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Re: vmware stopped working

Running vmware+dbus without hal doesn't work for me. Until now I disabled dbus... but now I'll just enable hal

voidzero

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Re: vmware stopped working

Argh, found this post through google, my bad for digging up an oldie

Cagnulein

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Re: vmware stopped working

/etc/rc.d/hal start

solves the problem here

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agaida

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Re: vmware stopped working

Has been a long time...
install and starting HAL solves problems with VMware 7.1 too
Sonme things never change. This is the one and only prgram needs HAL on my box