vmware problem

[jamesbandido]

i jsut installed vmware 1.0.5 server on my hardy ...
it installed properly ... flawlessly ... which made me think hard ...
now i am installing vmware mui and to my surprise when i ran ./vmware-install.pl it said ...



Do you accept? (yes/no) yes

Thank you.

Installing the content of the package.

VMware Server must be installed on this machine for the VMware Management
Interface to work

Execution aborted.

root@bandido-laptop-linux:/home/james/vmware-mui-distrib#


i did a little research and found that some libs are missing ... :D
now thats a software bug for me since it installed properly ...


root@bandido-laptop-linux:/# vmware
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_3.4' not found (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0' not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6)
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_3.4' not found (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0' not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6)
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_3.4' not found (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0' not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6)
root@bandido-laptop-linux:/#


anyway, can somebody please tell me how do i get these libs ?

thanks in advance ...

and have a nice weekend !!!

cheers !!!

[hotcold]

Hi.

Possibly not of direct use, however: with 1.0.4, I see that library in:
/usr/lib/vmware-server-console/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
/usr/lib/vmware-server-console/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1
which suggests that the server console needs to be installed.

If that leads nowhere, you may need to do some searching at vmware.com, perhaps at http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/server ... cheers, hotcold

[happybunny]

this might work

cd /usr/lib/vmware/lib/
sudo mv libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0 libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0.disabled
sudo ln - sf /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0
sudo mv libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1 libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1.disabled
sudo ln - sf /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1

[gamblor01]

I ran into this problem too when installing VMware Server 1.0.6 (which is out now by the way...you might want to get that instead of 1.0.5). I just made some symbolic links to fix it:

sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.2.3/libgcc_s.so /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0


Another really annoying thing I haven't fixed yet though, every single time I reboot VMware Server thinks it is not configured. If I try to start it, it just fails. If you run into this problem just "sudo rm -rf /etc/vmware/not_configured" and that should do the trick.

[hotcold]

Hi.

I ran into a few URLs that also suggested manipulating the libraries ... cheers, hotcold

http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-vmware-server-on-ubuntu-8.04

http://www.go2linux.org/vmware-server-on-debian-etch

[jamesbandido]

thanks for all your help guys ...

its now up and running ...

though i havent encountered gamblors' problem with the reboot ... yet ... :D

cheers to all !!!

[settermj]

I ran into this problem too when installing VMware Server 1.0.6 (which is out now by the way...you might want to get that instead of 1.0.5). I just made some symbolic links to fix it:

sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.2.3/libgcc_s.so /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0


Another really annoying thing I haven't fixed yet though, every single time I reboot VMware Server thinks it is not configured. If I try to start it, it just fails. If you run into this problem just "sudo rm -rf /etc/vmware/not_configured" and that should do the trick.
Thanks to 'gamblor01'. The fix works great on Hardy.

Matt