Latest Manjaro updates broke the VMWare Console

[billywade]

One of the more recent Manjaro updates (At earliest the April 22 17.1.8 stable update) has left the remote console behind. A few upgrades ago I was able to prevent the breakage by adding librsvg to my package ignore list, but after this update, I have no way to track back through every package to figure out what broke the remote console.

Here's where it broke:

```

2018-05-21T10:22:48.839-05:00| appLoader| I125: Loading shipped version of libfreetype.so.6.

2018-05-21T10:22:48.840-05:00| appLoader| I125: Loading system version of libfontconfig.so.1.

2018-05-21T10:22:48.841-05:00| appLoader| W115: Unable to load libfontconfig.so.1 from libfontconfig.so.1: /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Done_MM_Var

2018-05-21T10:22:48.841-05:00| appLoader| W115: Unable to load dependencies for /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmrc.so/libvmrc.so

2018-05-21T10:22:48.841-05:00| appLoader| W115: Unable to execute /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmrc.

```

It looks like the remote console doesn't recognize the symbol listed. Additionally, the installer is unable to launch the GUI.

Is there a way to get the console compiled from the latest source and get the dependencies fixed up?

[Alderw]

I had the same problem. The section "VMware Remote Console" from the ArchWiki page  https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Talk:VMware​ was the only working solution for me.

[billywade]

Just tried it out, but no such luck. I'm still getting

```

2018-06-18T17:55:43.933-05:00| appLoader| I125: Loading shipped version of libfontconfig.so.1.

2018-06-18T17:55:43.936-05:00| appLoader| W115: Unable to load libfontconfig.so.1 from /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libfontconfig.so.1/libfontconfig.so.1: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libfontconfig.so.1/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Done_MM_Var

2018-06-18T17:55:43.936-05:00| appLoader| W115: Unable to load dependencies for /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmrc.so/libvmrc.so

2018-06-18T17:55:43.936-05:00| appLoader| W115: Unable to execute /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmrc.

```

Thanks though!

[shareandgain]

Hi billywade,

Logs show that the apploader picked shipped freetype and system fontconfig, they are not compatible with each other(I guess the missing ` FT_Done_MM_Var` is a new symbol from a newer version of freetype, while vmrc shipped freetype is relatively old and don't have it).

Here is a workaround which may help you, you can export the env param below to force vmrc to use all shipped libs:

export VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_LIBS=1

This will force vmrc use a shipped freetype with a ***shipped*** fontconfig, which will not require the symbol `FT_Done_MM_Var`.

Hope this can help you, if there is no luck, please feel free adding comments in this thread.

Thanks