> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On > Behalf Of Brian Mathis > Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 7:06 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] vmware-server-console not installed > > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Gary Greene > <ggreene at minervanetworks.com> wrote: > > On 4/26/10 4:57 PM, "Dan Irwin" <dan at jackies.com.au> wrote: > >> > >>> -----Original Message----- > >>> From: centos-bounces at centos.org > >>> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Kwan Lowe > >>> Sent: Tuesday, 27 April 2010 3:52 AM > >>> To: CentOS mailing list > >>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] vmware-server-console not installed > >>> > >>> There's the glibc issue that's still unresolved. There's another > >>> issue with using Firefox as the admin client. It *might* let you in, > >>> but the console plugin doesn't appear to be working again. Only client > >>> that works for me is InternetExploder. > >> > >> So that's why the management interfaces from vmware 2 appear to keep > >> crashing! > >> > >> Also, the console plugin seems to work fine in Firefox on Fedora 12, for > >> me anyway. > >> > > > > The current work around is to downgrade glibc to that of 5.3, at least until > > the next update from VMWare comes out that should fix this issue. > > > > -- > > Gary L. Greene, Jr. > > > You don't need to downgrade for the whole OS, you can just do it for > VMware. See the procedure in the first comment in this bug > http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3884. I have done that and it > works fine. Just remember that if you update vmware, the edits to > vmware-hostd will be undone, so you need to redo them. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos I'm not "downgrading the whole OS" only GLibC, Timezone, and NSCD packages. Once I did that, the latest version of VMWare Server loads just fine.