Re: [CentOS] VMware Server 2.0.1 and Centos 5.4

On 10/20/2009 09:31 AM, Ben Mohilef wrote:

Upgrade to RHEL 5.4's glibc has rendered vmware-hostd inoperable in some systems. I don't know if Centos 5.4 has the same conflict between glibc and VMware Server as RHEL (no reason it shouldn't).

If you run VMware Server 2.0.1 make a copy of /lib64/libc-2.5.so (or /lib/libc- 2.5.so) before upgrading to 5.4. If you encounter this problem follow dirkgf 's instructions in http://communities.vmware.com/thread/229957

I will probably go with a temporary solution, which is a slightly modified version of the other solution mentioned here: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3884

add exclude=glibc glibc-common glibc-devel glibc-headers nscd to each repo in CentOS-Base.repo