VMware player not starting after upgrade to Fedora23

[czipis]

system upgraded to Fedora23 (kernel 4.2.3-300.fc23.x86_64), latest VMware Player (12.0.1.3160714). Player not starting (exit code 255)

from the log /tmp/vmware-xxxx/vmware-apploader-YYYY.log

2015-11-04T19:35:37.317+01:00| appLoader| W115: Unable to load libvmwareui.so from /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmwareui.so/libvmwareui.so: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmwareui.so/libvmwareui.so: undefined symbol: _ZN4Glib10spawn_syncERKSsRKNS_11ArrayHandleISsNS_17Container_Helpers10TypeTraitsISsEEEENS_10SpawnFlagsERKN4sigc4slotIvNSA_3nilESC_SC_SC_SC_SC_SC_EEPSsSG_Pi

2015-11-04T19:35:37.318+01:00| appLoader| W115: Unable to load dependencies for /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmware-modconfig.so/libvmware-modconfig.so

2015-11-04T19:35:37.318+01:00| appLoader| W115: Unable to execute /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-modconfig.

[czipis]

following hack not working

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libglibmm-2.4.so.1/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

then it crashes with:

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'cui::Error'

  what():  Unable to load image-loading module: /usr/lib/vmware/libconf/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/svg_loader.so: /usr/lib64/librsvg-2.so.2: undefined symbol: g_type_class_adjust_private_offset

Unexpected signal: 6.

VMware Player Error:

VMware Player unrecoverable error: (vmplayer)

Unexpected signal: 6.

and it exit with core dump.

[ElCoyote_]

Hi,

I got VMWare Worksation 12.0.1 working on F23 by doing this:

1) Become root:

$ sudo su -

2) replace the vmware glib version with the fedora version:

# cd /usr/lib/vmware

# for mylib in $(ls /usr/lib64/*4600*); do /bin/cp -afv $mylib $(basename $mylib .4600.1 )/$(basename $mylib .4600.1 ); done

This basically does this:

# pwd

/usr/lib/vmware/lib

# for mylib in $(ls /usr/lib64/*4600*); do echo /bin/cp -afv $mylib $(basename $mylib .4600.1 )/$(basename $mylib .4600.1 ); done

/bin/cp -afv /usr/lib64/libgio-2.0.so.0.4600.1 libgio-2.0.so.0/libgio-2.0.so.0

/bin/cp -afv /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0.4600.1 libglib-2.0.so.0/libglib-2.0.so.0

/bin/cp -afv /usr/lib64/libgmodule-2.0.so.0.4600.1 libgmodule-2.0.so.0/libgmodule-2.0.so.0

/bin/cp -afv /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0.4600.1 libgobject-2.0.so.0/libgobject-2.0.so.0

/bin/cp -afv /usr/lib64/libgthread-2.0.so.0.4600.1 libgthread-2.0.so.0/libgthread-2.0.so.0

3) start VMware or VMplayer:

$ VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_LIBS=force vmware

or:

$ VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_LIBS=force vmplayer

[czipis]

thx @ElCoyote_

it works now

[lovetide]

Thanks!

There's several small issues of this workaround

1. I can't see the menu of vmware player or workstation
2. The virtual machine inventory will lost after reboot
3. Guest OSes seems have DNS resolve issue, maybe because of DNS Server of VMware host failed to start

[master_hora]

Hi ElCoyote_,

many thanks for your tipps. I've just a small improvement:

$ sudo su -

# cd /usr/lib/vmware/lib

# for mylib in $(ls /usr/lib64/*4600*); do /bin/cp -afv $mylib $(basename ${mylib%%.4600.*})/$(basename ${mylib%%.4600.*}); done

This requires a bash to work and won't fail if the version of the source binaries is updated as it happened to me.

Regards,

     Holger

[ninfasoje85]

Really handy guys. I have been working very hard on my project review and this was annoying me no end. Really helpful