Re: VMWare does not start after update to libc6-i386?

[Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>]

Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org> writes:
>
> > Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > > Kourosh <debian@mindwaresystems.com> writes:
> > >
> > > > After I remove the /emul entries from ld.so.conf and rerun ldconfig
> > > > -v, I see that it does _not_ scan the 3 /emul directories and does
> > > > _not_ find the 32bit X libs and I again get the same error with vmware
> > > > not finding the correct libs.  At least on my system, the 3 /emul
> > > > entries are required for vmware to work.  I don't have any other 32bit
> > > > software that I can test.
> > > >
> > > > I add back the 3 /emul entries, rerun ldconfig -v, and the 3 /emul
> > > > directories are scanner and vmware works again.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > >
> > > > Kourosh
> > > I have the same versions and the same links in /lib/ldconfig on my
> > > system and everything works without anything in ld.so.conf. It doesn't
> > > make sense for ldconfig to fail completly on some systems.
> > > Please file a bug report about this with libc6. Maybe the maintainers
> > > have more insight.
> > This is happening to me, too. Not with VMWare, specifically, but
> > ldconfig isn't seeing the symlinks in /lib/ldconfig. If I add the
> > directory lines back to /etc/ld.so.conf it works fine.
> >
> > Did anybody file a bug? I looked but the list of open bugs for libc6
> > is huge. If nobody has filed a bug yet, then I will.
> >
> > -Corey
>
> I managed to track the problem down with the help of Ivan Ivanic (at
> least that's what /whois says). ldconfig only follows entries in
> /lib/ldconfig that have d_type=DT_LINK set in their direntry
> structure. Unfortunately reiserfs always sets d_type=DT_UNKNOWN. Glibc
> docs mention that in such a case one has to stat the entries themself
> and ldconfig didn't do that.

Wow, I never would have guessed. Thanks a bunch for figuring it out.

-Corey