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

[Kourosh <debian@mindwaresystems.com>]

X-TRaZy said the following on 03/22/2006 01:38 AM:
> Goswin von Brederlow (brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de) wrote:
>
> > Joost Kraaijeveld <J.Kraaijeveld@Askesis.nl> writes:
> >
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Since I updated my Etch AMD64 from with ia32-libs to libc6-i386 I cannot
> > > start VMWare 5.5 anymore. Is it possible to let it run again or do I
> > > have to try to reinstall ia32-libs?
> > >
> > > If I should reinstall ia32-libs, how can I do that: I get all sorts of
> > > dependency errors that I cannot solve? Should I first completely
> > > un-install libc6-i386 and than try to reinstall ia32-libs?
> > >
> > > TIA
> >
> > Install it from sid.
> >
> > Any problems left?
> >
> > MfG
> >        Goswin
>
>
> I had some problems too. I _really_ don't know for sure what I did, 
> but I fiddled around with hal, and suddenly it worked again.

I had the same problem with VMware, but I seem to have found a fix.

On my system, the libraries are there under /emul/ia32-linux/ but VMware 
didn't seem to find them.  What I did that appears to fix the problem 
was to add the /emul/ia32-linux/ directories to my /etc/ld.so.conf file 
and re-run ldconfig as root.  This is what I added in my ld.so.conf file:

/emul/ia32-linux/lib/
/emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/
/emul/ia32-linux/usr/X11R6/
/emul/ia32-linux/usr/X11R6/lib/

I'm not sure if all of that is needed, but the last line definitely was. 
 Then I re-ran ldconfig and VMware would start.  We'll have to see if 
it keeps working =)

Hope this helps.

Kourosh