Re: First impressions of Etch and trying to get vmware server to run (amd64)
On Tuesday, 6. February 2007 10:56, Paul Walsh wrote:
> Background:
>
> The PC I use at work (Intel D945GCZL motherboard, Intel BTX P4, SATA2 HDD)
> has, until yesterday, been running SUSE 10.1 or openSUSE 10.2 (depending
> what mood I'm in). I'd successfully installed vmware server 1.0.1 on each
> version so that I could run a windoze XP VM (sadly, practically everything
> here is a product of Redmond!).
>
> >From the start I'd really wanted Debian on as I'd become somewhat used to
> > it on other systems (though I still have
>
> difficulty locating some things in the menus). I'd previously tried to
> install Sarge (32bit and 64bit) but neither saw the SATA drive nor onboard
> NIC. Yesterday I got round to installing Etch which happily saw the NIC
> and HDD and installed almost flawlessly. I say "almost" because there I was
> using the GUI install for the first time and I thought I'd switch console
> using CTRL-ALT-Fn which promptly caused an error (sorry, no details to hand
> - I simply restarted and avoided that key combo!) Also, grub failed to
> install, so I ended up manually editing menu.lst on /dev/sda1 (the openSUSE
> 10.2 partition where grub is installed)
So I'm not the only one who had problems installing grub under debian.
>
> Once I'd got the system up and running I needed to get dual-head display
> sorted out (Sapphire ATI Radeon X550 with 2 x 19" AMW M199D displays) which
> I eventually managed by taking Monitor, Modes, Screen, Device and
> ServerLayout sections from the xorg.conf used by SUSE and removing anything
> that seemed SUSE related (SAX2 stuff).
>
> Finally I was ready to give vmware a shot and that's where I'm hitting a
> brick wall.
>
> First off, uname -a gives the following:
>
> Linux etchtest 2.6.17-2-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Sep 13 17:49:33 CEST 2006 x86_64
> GNU/Linux
>
> when I try running /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl it complains about libraries:
>
> The correct version of one or more libraries needed to run VMware Server
> may be missing. This is the output of ldd /usr/bin/vmware:
> linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
> libm.so.6 => /lib32/libm.so.6 (0xf7f4a000)
> libdl.so.2 => /lib32/libdl.so.2 (0xf7f46000)
> libpthread.so.0 => /lib32/libpthread.so.0 (0xf7f35000)
> libX11.so.6 => not found
> libXtst.so.6 => not found
> libXext.so.6 => not found
> libXt.so.6 => not found
> libICE.so.6 => not found
> libSM.so.6 => not found
> libXrender.so.1 => not found
> libz.so.1 => not found
> libc.so.6 => /lib32/libc.so.6 (0xf7e08000)
> /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf7f81000)
>
> This program cannot tell for sure, but you may need to upgrade libc5 to
> glibc before you can run VMware Server.
>
> Trouble is, ldconfig -p has no trouble locating the libraries:
> ldconfig -p
> *snip*
>
> libX11.so.6 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
> libXtst.so.6 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/libXtst.so.6
> etc.
>
> Is this a 64bit vs 32bit problem? Has anyone successfully got vmware
> server running under 64bit Etch? If so, any suggestions would be gratefully
> received! :)
>
Yes it is a 64bit vs 32bit problem. Vmware tells the Server runs under 64bit
Linux, but this is only half the truth. You have to install the 32bit
libraries (ia32-libs).
>
> Apart from the vmware problems everything seems to be OK so far. I'm not
> sure whether it's psychological but Etch does seem to start up quicker than
> Suse :-)
>
> --
> Paul Walsh
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