on 4-27-2010 8:46 AM Les Mikesell spake the following: > On 4/27/2010 10:29 AM, Gary Greene wrote: >> >>> >>> 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. >> > > >> 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. > > Does anyone else think it is extremely strange that Red Hat introduced > an incompatible base library change late in the life of their enterprise > OS? Or that VMware hasn't followed with a matching change in subsequent > updates? I don't get it. > RedHat will post a change like that if the needed fixes cannot be backported for some reason... It is rare, but does happen