** On Mar 26, Mike Phillips scribbled:
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 05:16:03PM +0100 or sometime in the same epoch, Marek Habersack scribbled:
> > It's some problem with the Debian libc, most probably. VMware fails
> > comunication using the IPC mechanism (check out your VM log for the
> > messages, or strace vmware as root) - I'm not sure what's the problem,
> > though, yet.
>
> Yep, I tracked it down with strace and the VM log. It almost looks
> like a libc function may have been changed. It dies on a select
> following two failed reads. The select returns saying data left in
> filehandle #8, but the following read(8,0x81cb36c,24) returns EAGAIN.
>
> The final line is:
>
> select(9, [6 7 8], [], NULL, {1, 0}VMware PANIC: (ide0:0)
> NOT_IMPLEMENTED F(831):688)
>
> The code forks not much before this point and its not immediately
> obvious where the program flow is.
Exactly... But it looks like a broken IPC handle or something... Also, did
you notice that vmware ignores (how?) the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable?
marek
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