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

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

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