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Browse button in VMWare broken?

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26 July 2007 - 2:27pm
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I forget this and have to relearn it every time I update VMWare on my machine (yes, it breaks with every update from VMWare).  For the nitty gritty details I am running VMWare Server on SLED10 SP1, though this also affects VMWare Workstation.  I am not sure if it broke with the update to SP1, or if it broke in one of the VMWare updates as I did them both at the same time back in one of the SLED 10 internal betas but at some point the browse button in VMWare started causing VMWare to hang.  After much searching on the web I discovered the fix - though I could have saved myself a bunch of time by searching our own Knowledgebase first, as someone had already created a TID.

The fix, for which I can claim no credit, is to su to root and:

  1.  cd /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0
  2. mv libpng12.so.0 libpng12.so.0.old
  3. ln -sf /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0
  4. cd ../libgcc_s.so.1
  5. mv libgcc_s.so.1 libgcc_s.so.1.old
  6. ln -sf /lib/libgcc_s.so.1

And that should be it.


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Well duh :)

Submitted by Grant Ballard (not verified) on 26 July 2007 - 8:43pm.

Well duh :)

great, i've been searching

Submitted by Marc-Andre Vallee (not verified) on 27 July 2007 - 6:02am.

great, i've been searching for that for a while, but unfortunatly, doesn't fix my...
i'm on x86_64, doesn't know if it makes any difference....

still getting

(vmware-server-console:8189): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Cannot load module `/opt/gnome/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libfile.so' (/usr/lib/vmware-server-console/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0' not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6))

i know this is not support forums.

I think I had the same

Submitted by Alex Evans (not verified) on 30 July 2007 - 8:02am.

I think I had the same problem at one point during one of the SP1 Beta's. And I am not sure I ever fixed it - it's likely a case of either having to install some -compat libraries or linking some of the other libraries you already have. I do seem to remember that the problem was caused by some libraries being compiled with GCC 4.2.0. Maybe someone on the forums has a better idea.

Excellent and very timely

Submitted by John Yorke (not verified) on 31 July 2007 - 3:45pm.

Excellent and very timely :). Works great on SLES 10 SP1 x86_64 for me.

great tip, worked well for

Submitted by Carlo Baffè (not verified) on 1 August 2007 - 12:45am.

great tip, worked well for me on SLED 10 SP1 with VMWare Workstation

tx a lot

carlo

I don't think that X86_64

Submitted by Darren Davis (not verified) on 1 August 2007 - 10:51am.

I don't think that X86_64 makes a difference as I ran into this issue using VMware Server on my Intel based X86_64 machine with SLES 10 SP1 and the outlined fix solved it.

So, worked for me.

You need to link to

Submitted by Erik Dooper (not verified) on 6 August 2007 - 5:03am.

You need to link to libgcc_s.so.1 in /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 as well (note the -console in the path).

Great Tip. Worked in my

Submitted by Andreas (not verified) on 15 August 2007 - 2:25am.

Great Tip.
Worked in my situation, searched around a lot until i found your tip.

Thank's for sharing!
Andreas

Thanks for publishing your

Submitted by Ferenc Baksa (not verified) on 16 August 2007 - 2:31am.

Thanks for publishing your solution, after applying your fix my VMware Server 1.0.3 works perfectly on SLED SP1(2.6.16.46-0.14-smp) again!
Ferenc

This also fixed my identical

Submitted by dittoalex (not verified) on 22 August 2007 - 9:02pm.

This also fixed my identical problem on Debian Etch.

Hello, Thanks for the fix.

Submitted by Patrick (not verified) on 4 September 2007 - 9:03am.

Hello,

Thanks for the fix. It works well on my SLED 10.1.

Didn't find any posts about this in the wmware KB.

Next step is to make hypervisor working with SLED and gnome to be rid of wmware ;)

Worked like a charm, thanks

Submitted by Grifter (not verified) on 7 September 2007 - 6:06am.

Worked like a charm, thanks for the info.

thank you very much

Submitted by lucas (not verified) on 23 September 2007 - 12:27pm.

thank you very much

That did the trick!

Submitted by Conte (not verified) on 2 October 2007 - 2:37pm.

That did the trick! Thanks!

Fixed VMware Server 1.0.4 on SLED 10 sp1

Did the trick for me as well

Submitted by Gary Childers (not verified) on 23 October 2007 - 6:29am.

Did the trick for me as well on SLED10 SP1 /VMware Server 1.0.4. Luckily, I found this answer on my very first google. Don't know what caused the issue, though, it just started out of the blue. Thanks.

Excellent, it works on

Submitted by f1Sh (not verified) on 29 October 2007 - 3:56am.

Excellent, it works on debian etch too! Great!

That's it! Thank You!

Submitted by mb (not verified) on 26 November 2007 - 1:15am.

That's it!

Thank You!

Did a refresh install of

Submitted by Albert (not verified) on 18 December 2007 - 7:06am.

Did a refresh install of SLES 10.1 with VMWare Server 1.0.4 and it worked fine. Make sure that you have a machine that doesn't have a other VMWare product installed.

Man, you saved my life!

Submitted by Alan Cota (not verified) on 20 December 2007 - 8:18pm.

Man, you saved my life! hehehhe!
Tks!

awesome!!! thanks man

Submitted by zadoo (not verified) on 9 June 2008 - 3:57am.

awesome!!! thanks man

super

Submitted by anonymous (not verified) on 9 September 2008 - 4:13am.

i have Debian Etch and vmware 1.6 and these commands put again in work the browse button. Great Job man!

thanks a lot

Submitted by Anonymous on 17 September 2008 - 12:12am.

this resolved my problems with debian etch and vmware server 1.07
thanks thanks thanks

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