VMware crashes shortly after opening. D-Bus to blame?

[S201]

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...

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

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! 

[birdie]

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.

[MentholMoose]

Do you know what version of dbus has problems?

[MentholMoose]

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.

[rjwilmsi]

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/)