Dear community,
tried to update the VMWare Tools in a Debian Linux Bullseye (11/64bit) VM (see version in the subject). Executing /usr/lib/vmware-tools/sbin64/vmware-modconfig-console results in a SIGSEGV (you can try the --get-gcc switch, others fail, too).
I think this is a problem with kernel 5.10.0 (-13-amd64 currently installed). There were problems in the past with the reading of /proc/version - from what I saw from other community blogs.
Using gdb, I only see in the backtrack some dives into /usr/lib/vmware-tools/lib/libvmware-modconfig-console.so but obviously no debug information attached to this shared object. It ends up in the AVX2 version sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/strchr-avx2.S, the highly optimized assembler code of strchr (which is __strchr_avx2). Might be a NULL pointer to something like this.
No clue what is going wrong here. Is someone having the same problem? Any solution? Thanks.
