Re: sid: libc6-2.2.5-4 kills vmware workstation 3.0
On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 19:59, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Mike Phillips (phillim2@comcast.net) wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 06:55:50PM +0100 or sometime in the same epoch,
Marek Habersack scribbled:
> > > Exactly... But it looks like a broken IPC handle or something... Also,
> > > did you notice that vmware ignores (how?) the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable?
> >
> > Yep, saw that. vmware does some very clever and very bizarre things at
> > times. I have played with the vmnet source before when 2.0 wasn't
> > working with some of the 2.4.x kernels and they certainly rely on too
> > many things being in a certain place.
>
> Check the permissions on vmware.
>
> -r-sr-xr-x 1 root staff 2110200 Nov 23 09:58
> /usr/local/bin/vmware
>
> Try to use LD_LIBRARY_PATH on /bin/su. You'll notice there's a
> coincidence. :)
So if you login as root and change the permissions on the file to 755 and run
it as root the LD_LIBRARY_PATH and LD_PRELOAD should work.
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