[Vmware-package-maintainers] Bug#474664: /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/bin/vmware-server-console: /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0' not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6)

[Robert Edmonds]

Trent W. Buck wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 12:15:59AM -0400, Robert Edmonds wrote:
> > If you could, could you please unset VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK, but make a
> > modification to /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/lib/wrapper-gtk24.sh?
> > Comment out line 246,
> > 
> >     vm_append_lib 'libgcc_s.so.1'
> > 
> > Does vmware-server-console now start up?
> 
> Yes, that fixes it.

OK, thanks for confirming.  I don't know exactly what to do; it sounds
like mixing system libs and vmware-shipped libs is becoming dangerous
now that divergence is growing between the pseudo- dynamically linked
binaries that vmware ships and the bleeding edge libraries in unstable.

> > It also might be helpful when reporting problems like this if you could
> > attach the output of
> > 
> >     pmap `pidof /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/bin/vmware-server-console`
> > 
> > when vmware-server-console starts up correctly.  Thanks.
> 
> I'll try to remember.  You might want to add that as a reportbug
> script, so it's included automatically when reporting bugs with
> reportbug.

Well, it only works when the program is running, which may not be the
case when reportbug is invoked.  I'll add it to README.Debian, though.

-- 
Robert Edmonds
edmonds at debian.org
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