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

[Kourosh <debian@mindwaresystems.com>]

Goswin von Brederlow said the following on 03/23/2006 08:31 PM:
> Kourosh <debian@mindwaresystems.com> writes:
>
>
> > 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
>
>
> What libc6 version do you have? ls -lh /lib/ldconfig
>
> MfG Goswin

kourosh@kimiko:~$ ls -lh /lib/ldconfig/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2006-03-23 11:36 emul_ia32-linux_lib ->
/emul/ia32-linux/lib
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2006-03-23 11:36 emul_ia32-linux_usr_lib ->
/emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 2006-03-23 11:36 emul_ia32-linux_usr_X11R6_lib
-> /emul/ia32-linux/usr/X11R6/lib
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2006-03-22 15:37 x86_64-linux-gnu-lib ->
../x86_64-linux-gnu
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 2006-03-22 15:37 x86_64-linux-gnu-usr-lib ->
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu


kourosh@kimiko:~$ dpkg -l | grep -e libc6 -e ia32-libs
ii  ia32-libs                           1.6
  ia32 shared libraries for use on amd64 and i
ri  libc6                               2.3.6-4
  GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii  libc6-dev                           2.3.6-4
  GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Hea
ii  libc6-dev-i386                      2.3.6-4
  GNU C Library: 32bit development libraries f
ii  libc6-i386                          2.3.6-4
  GNU C Library: 32bit shared libraries for AM


Regards,

Kourosh