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Upgrade to RHEL 5.4's glibc has rendered vmware-hostd inoperable in
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If you run VMware Server 2.0.1 make a copy of /lib64/libc-2.5.so (or /lib/libc-
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from which I quote:</span></font>
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> Re: vmware-hostd crashes repeatedly after upgrade to RHEL 5.4 Sep 5,</span></font>
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> 2009 7:49 AM</span></font>
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> just for reference in case somebody else is having this issue. We seem to have</span></font>
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> been able to resolve the problem for us. Following the steps we performed.</span></font>
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> * Log on to your VMware host.</span></font>
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> * Create the directory /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libc.so.6</span></font>
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> * Log on to an RHEL 5.3. machine. Grab /lib64/libc-2.5.so (or</span></font>
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> /lib/libc-2.5.so in case you're running an 32 Bit host) and copy it to the</span></font>
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> VMware host into /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libc.so.6</span></font>
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> * Rename the file libc-2.5.so within /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libc.so.6 to</span></font>
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> libc.so.6 * Open /usr/sbin/vmware-hostd and add</span></font>
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> /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libc.so.6 to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH. I just added an</span></font>
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> "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libc.so.6:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"</span></font>
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> before the last line. * Restart your vmware services (or just the host)</span></font>
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> Downgrading libc might be also an option, but I'd like to keep the host</span></font>
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> unchanged other</span></font>
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Works for me on a x86_64 system which exhibited similar symptoms. I
agree with his last line because I don't know what else retaining the old glibc
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regards,</span></font>
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benm</span></font>
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