Well, If I don't use
# Fix for pulling in libdbus-1.so.2 instead of .3
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3:$LD_PRELOAD
vmware fails to run. But I have changed to libdbus-1.so.2, so put
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.2:$LD_PRELOAD
The program runs but still have the same browser problem with the same error message above with libdbus-1.so.3.

Here is the output of ldd -r command
:~$ ldd -r /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.2
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
libnsl.so.1 => /lib/tls/libnsl.so.1 (0xa7edf000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0xa7dad000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x75555000)

~$ ldd -r /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
libnsl.so.1 => /lib/tls/libnsl.so.1 (0xa7f83000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0xa7e51000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x75555000)

Cheers.

hi, i did have same problem in debian etch (testing)

all i had to do was remove package libdbus-1-2

there is libdbus-1-3 version also but old library still have some dependency packages

Hi,

thanks fo your reply. It seams to me like I don't have libdbus-1-2 installed:

user@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-cache policy libdbus-1-2
W: cannot find libdbus-1-2

however, libdbus 1-1 is installed

i fix the problem ..

just copy the /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 to /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0/

overwrite the file ... and it will be funktion why ? i dont now

cu

olekole

Thanks Danny,

That fixed the problem for me also, with Workstation on Edgy.

Cheers,
Dan

Thanks. The "just copy" fixed it for me also.

Chuck

I upgraded Kubuntu from dapper (6.06) to edgy (6.10) simply by changing sources.lst and running apt-get dist-upgrade and VMware stopped working. Got the same libpng error which I can get rid of using several of the previously mentioned fixes (comment out vm_append_lib 'libpng12.so.0' in the wrapper or copy the system libpng into vmware's lib directory). Unfortunately the VMware Console still didn't start. I didn't get the error anymore, but it hangs immediately.

Finally I ran
sudo apt-get remove libdbus-1-2

and it finally started working again.

ouhrbach's suggestion worked for me as well!!

Same error reported over Ubuntu Fiesty (7.04?).