Symptom: VMware Remote Console (and console plugin under Firefox) on Fedora 16 crashes with SIGSEGV (segfault) when it attempts a connection to a remote vCenter server. Traceback in /tmp/vmware-<username>/vmrc-<pid>.log shows lines like:
2012-02-29T09:37:31.994+10:00| vmrc| VMClient_ConnectMksClientEx - trying remote socket connection to esxi08.kp.realestate.com.au:902 /vmfs/volumes/4e5fa66e-4c4315ce-d31a-002219c1ea7a/hostname.domain/hostname.domain.vmx
2012-02-29T09:37:31.994+10:00| vmrc| VMClientConnectSocketEx
2012-02-29T09:37:32.114+10:00| vmrc| Caught signal 11 -- pid 21730
[...]
2012-02-29T09:37:32.117+10:00| vmrc| SymBacktrace[3] 00007fff9fbb8760 rip=00007f1de4ec2ee4 in function engine_unlocked_finish in object /lib64/libcrypto.so.10 loaded at 00007f1de4e1a000
Cause: Incompatibilities between VMware-provided libcrypto.so.0.9.8 and the Fedora-supplied libcrypto.so.1.0.0g (and libcrypto.so.0.9.8)
Fix: use LD_PRELOAD to ensure the VMware-provided libcrypto is loaded before the Fedora-supplied library
HOWTO:
- myhost# mv /usr/lib/vmware-vmrc/vmware-vmrc /usr/lib/vmware-vmrc/vmware-vmrc.real
- myhost# cat > /usr/lib/vmware-vmrc/vmware-vmrc << EoF
#!/bin/sh
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/vmware-vmrc/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8/libcrypto.so.0.9.8
/usr/lib/vmware-vmrc/bin/vmware-vmrc $*
EoF - myhost# chmod 755 /usr/lib/vmware-vmrc/vmware-vmrc
At this point, starting either the Remote Console client directly, or by clicking on the console in the vCenter Flash web-based client should work
Message was edited by: colinprea - fix command-line in first command; add traceback and logfile reference
