Problem opening an existing VMWare machine (gnome-vfs-2.0/.../libfile.so)

[davesmith]

Morning!

I installed the latest VMware Workstation and every time I click File->Open, the VMware workstation hangs and I get these messages in the console I started vmware from.

(vmware:7717): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Cannot load module `/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libfile.so' (/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0' not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6))

I'm running Debian GNU/Linux 4.0, which is 'Etch'.

Kernel: 2.6.18-3-k7 (not that I think that's the problem!)

Anyone have any suggestions of what other information is useful??

Thanks,

Dave Smith

[KevinG]

Hi Dave,

Do you have GCC_4.2.0 installed on your system?

dpkg --list | grep -i gcc

[davesmith]

Actually, no.

gcc 4.1.1-15

It's not been released yet, looking at the GCC homepage (http://gcc.gnu.org/)

Do you think it's the debian libraries, or the vmware libraries at fault? I can't imagine it's a vmware requirement to have GCC 4.2 installed

Shall I go chasing a debian email list??

Dave

[KevinG · Accepted solution]

Hi Dave,

You want to try starting vmware from the command line using the following syntax

VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=force vmware

or

VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=yes vmware

[davesmith]

Thanks Kevin that worked...

VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=force vmware

Doesn't look all nice and smooth as my current GTK, but I can click open now.

I'll try swapping back in a few months, or after vmware workstation 6 comes out!!

Thanks again

Dave

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