Bug 301884 – VMware Server 2.0.2 and Firefox 3.6 don't like each other.

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Willard Dawson 2010-01-23 05:44:10 UTC]

I experienced this same issue, and found at least one other mention of it:

http://serverfault.com/questions/101611/vmware-server-2-0-2-and-firefox-3-6-rc1

In my case, I'm using Firefox 3.6 (www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.6).

Each time I attempt to load the https console, I see messages like the following in /var/log/vmware/hostd.log:

[2010-01-23 00:28:47.020 'Proxysvc' 3061746544 warning] SSL Handshake on client connection failed: SSL Exception:

Downgrading to firefox-3.5-r2 seems to "fix" the problem.


Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Willard Dawson 2010-02-02 01:56:05 UTC]

Anything?

[Comment 2 Vadim Kuznetsov (RETIRED) 2010-02-04 23:11:34 UTC]

It look's like enabling ssl2 in firefox will allow you to use https console.
In about:config set security.enable_ssl2 to true.

[Comment 3 Willard Dawson 2010-02-05 13:59:41 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> It look's like enabling ssl2 in firefox will allow you to use https console.
> In about:config set security.enable_ssl2 to true.
> 

Thanks for the feedback. Searching further, I see such as:

http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?locale=pt-BR&comments_parentId=564314&forumId=

Disabling sslv2 is a good thing, from a security perspective.  On the other hand, it totally breaks access to the VMware web-based console.

These issues are clearly upstream and not Gentoo-specific, so from my perspective, we can close this bug.