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4 Replies Last post: Jul 11, 2009 7:23 AM by rjwilmsi  

VMware crashes shortly after opening. D-Bus to blame? posted: Jan 13, 2009 9:47 AM

Click to view S201's profile Lurker 1 posts since
Jan 13, 2009

Hi all, I've been using VMware 6.5 on my Fedora 10 machine for over a month now
but today I went to expand the disk size of my virtual Windows XP
system and my Fedora system locked up in the process of growing the
virtual hdd. I was forced to cut the power and restart. Upon restart, I
successfully grew my virtual hdd however, now when I open VMware, it
crashes within thirty seconds.

My error from when I open it via terminal is...

{noformat}process 16855: arguments to dbus_move_error() were incorrect, assertion "(dest) == NULL || !dbus_error_is_set ((dest))" failed in file dbus-errors.c line 278.
This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.
D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace{noformat}
{noformat}I've been on Google for a while now and haven't come up with anything and I really don't know where to go from here. I've already tried
reinstalling VMware, twice. Maybe downgrading dbus, if that is actually
the problem? If any more info is needed, please let me know. Any help
or a point in the right direction is awesome. Thanks!
{noformat}
Click to view birdie's profile Master 1,012 posts since
Oct 10, 2003
During Fedora 10 release cycle there was a buggy D-bus update released, so being you I would update my system (sudo yum update), then try again.

If that doesn't help, then make a mirror of your virtual disk using e.g. Acronis Disk Director/Acronis TrueImage or Linux `dd` - probably your virtual HDD is inconsistent now.
Click to view MentholMoose's profile Novice 8 posts since
Jul 12, 2006
Do you know what version of dbus has problems?
Click to view MentholMoose's profile Novice 8 posts since
Jul 12, 2006
Well I found my problem... dbus was enabled but hal wasn't. Enabling hal resolved the crashing for me. This is a fresh amd64 install of Gentoo, with hal-0.5.11-r1 and dbus-1.2.3-r1.
Click to view rjwilmsi's profile Lurker 1 posts since
Jul 11, 2009
I had the same problem. Per http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-210384.html the problem went away after deleting my preferences file (in ~/.vmware/)

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