/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8/libssl.so.0.9.8: undefined symbol: EVP_ecdsa

[sainio]

Hi,

After some package update/install vmware ( 7.0.1 build 227600 x86_64) stopped working. When trying to start, I get an error:

/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8/libssl.so.0.9.8: undefined symbol: EVP_ecdsa

ameeba 6:38 > md5sum /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8/libssl.so.0.9.8

8ee5d0ab909cbf5604ab025f836f5cc0 /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8/libssl.so.0.9.8

System is running Fedora Core 11 with all the latest updates with some multimedia tools and Nvidia drivers from rpmfusion.

ameeba 6:41 > less /tmp/vmware-pasi/setup-9349.log

Mar 15 06:41:15.938: app-140707592353520| Log for VMware Workstation pid=9349 version=7.0.1 build=build-227600 option=Release

Mar 15 06:41:15.938: app-140707592353520| The process is 64-bit.

Mar 15 06:41:15.938: app-140707592353520| Host codepage=UTF-8 encoding=UTF-8

Mar 15 06:41:15.938: app-140707592353520| Logging to /tmp/vmware-pasi/setup-9349.log

Mar 15 06:41:16.077: app-140707592353520| modconf query interface initialized

Mar 15 06:41:16.077: app-140707592353520| modconf library initialized

Reinstalling vmware did not help.

Any ideas?

- Pasi -

[bezik · Accepted solution]

There is a suspicion that your libcrypto.so have been caught earlier than one bundled with vmware, try: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 && vmware & from command line

[sainio]

Hi,

yes, this was indeed the case, I realized that myself after browsing yum install log at one point, if you install the crypto packages from fedora, it will indeed break vmware. I still think this is vmware bug as they do provide their version, I think itä's only fair to assume that their software also uses it..

- Pasi -