VMware Communities: Message List - Enabling Converter Enterprise Plugin for the VC 2.5 client crashes client

Re: Enabling Converter Enterprise Plugin for the VC 2.5 client crashes client

tmcquaig — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:38:14 GMT

I ended up fixing this by removing all of the ssleay.dll's I could find. It works now but I have an error with PSI which is a jabber client. VMWare support couldn't help much as VC 2.5 client is currently unsupported on Vista 64.

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Re: Enabling Converter Enterprise Plugin for the VC 2.5 client crashes client

tmcquaig — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:28:12 GMT

I'm having the same problem. However on vista 64.

I can disable it and vc works fine. Enable and it crashes. Don't have an ssleay.dll anywhere else but the plugin directory.

Re: Enabling Converter Enterprise Plugin for the VC 2.5 client crashes client

depping — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:10:31 GMT

I had the exact same issue today on another server... it's no coincidence anymore.

Duncan
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http://www.yellow-bricks.com

Re: Enabling Converter Enterprise Plugin for the VC 2.5 client crashes client

depping — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:15:43 GMT

another possible solution:
http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2008/02/05/installing-the-converter-plugin-crashes-the-virtualcenter-client-part-ii/

Duncan
My virtualisation blog:
http://www.yellow-bricks.com

Re: Enabling Converter Enterprise Plugin for the VC 2.5 client crashes client

sgmess — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:13:11 GMT

ssleay32.dll is a dll from the OpenSSL project and is installed by some third party software including the VI Client Converter Plugin, it is not a standard Windows dll. I would suggest you move it from the windows/system32 and store it somewhere else, this will allow you to install the plugin and if you then find a piece of software that stops it is most likely because of this dll, and you can always move it back. I never contacted VMware support with this issue.

Re: Enabling Converter Enterprise Plugin for the VC 2.5 client crashes client

robc.yk — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:43:05 GMT

Currently I have the plug in not-enabled because of the issue in the event there is also a bigger underlying problem we do not see. Do you know what this DLL you removed does? Was it removed as a suggestion from VMware support?

Re: Enabling Converter Enterprise Plugin for the VC 2.5 client crashes client

rvandalen — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:33:35 GMT

I tried that.... and indeed.... it worked......I wonder how you found out that this file was related....cause this seems like the typical needle in a haystack....

thanks a lot for your suggestion !

Re: Enabling Converter Enterprise Plugin for the VC 2.5 client crashes client

sgmess — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:27:59 GMT

I had exactly the same problem and this was caused by a dll file confict, in my case I had an old version of the ssleay32.dll file in my windows\system32 directory. I removed the file and it now works correctly.

Enabling Converter Enterprise Plugin for the VC 2.5 client crashes client

rvandalen — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:41:05 GMT

Hi All,

I installed the Converter Enterprise Plugin for the VC 2.5 client which looks to be installed ok. However when I go to the "installed" tab, en click the enable checkbox for Converter, it crashes the VI client without any messages. Tried already to uninstall and reinstall the plugin, but same behaviour.

Tried it on a colleagues workstation and it works ok there.

VI client+converter plugin installed on XP SP2.

Anyone any idea's ?

Regards,

Rene