On 4/27/2010 2:48 PM, Scott Silva 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 The breakage seems to be RH/Centos specific. Does no one else use that libc version? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com