After updating my system (including kernel 2.6.33) vmware-server fails to start properly. The modules compile and start nicely, vmware-config.pl works as expected, but starting/restarting vmware-server fails. /var/log/messages shows the following error: Apr 22 10:09:32 yoko watchdog-webAccess: [26754] Begin '/opt/vmware/server/lib/webAccess/java/jre1.5.0_15/bin/webAccess -client -Xmx64m -XX:MinHeapFreeRatio=30 -XX:MaxHeapFreeRatio=30 -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/opt/vmware/server/lib/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/common/endorsed -classpath /opt/vmware/server/lib/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/bin/bootstrap.jar:/opt/vmware/server/lib/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/bin/commons-logging-api.jar -Dcatalina.base=/opt/vmware/server/lib/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16 -Dcatalina.home=/opt/vmware/server/lib/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/opt/vmware/server/lib/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start', min-uptime = 30, max-quick-failures = 5, max-total-failures = 1000000 Apr 22 10:09:32 yoko watchdog-webAccess: Executing '/opt/vmware/server/lib/webAccess/java/jre1.5.0_15/bin/webAccess -client -Xmx64m -XX:MinHeapFreeRatio=30 -XX:MaxHeapFreeRatio=30 -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/opt/vmware/server/lib/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/common/endorsed -classpath /opt/vmware/server/lib/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/bin/bootstrap.jar:/opt/vmware/server/lib/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/bin/commons-logging-api.jar -Dcatalina.base=/opt/vmware/server/lib/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16 -Dcatalina.home=/opt/vmware/server/lib/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/opt/vmware/server/lib/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start' Apr 22 10:09:36 yoko kernel: vmware-hostd[26926]: segfault at 2100001c4f ip 00007f665f4685d0 sp 00007f6657a25ba8 error 4 in libc-2.11.so[7f665f3ec000+14f000] recompiling vmware-server, vmware-modules, glibc or (as reported in some threads on the internet) expat did not solve the issue. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. /etc/init.d/vmware start (or restart) Actual Results: Modules start (a lot of OKs being reported) but /var/log/messages shows Apr 22 10:09:36 yoko kernel: vmware-hostd[26926]: segfault at 2100001c4f ip 00007f665f4685d0 sp 00007f6657a25ba8 error 4 in libc-2.11.so[7f665f3ec000+14f000] Expected Results: vmware-hostd ist expected to start and auto-start virtual machines should be started The output of an ldd inserted into the script /opt/vmware/server/sbin/vmware-hostd right before starting vmware-hostd shows this: linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fff000e2000) libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007f6d85157000) libvmomi.so.1.0 => /opt/vmware/server/lib/vmacore/libvmomi.so.1.0 (0x00007f6d84bf0000) libvmacore.so.1.0 => /opt/vmware/server/lib/vmacore/libvmacore.so.1.0 (0x00007f6d8452e000) libexpat.so.0 => /opt/vmware/server/lib/lib/libexpat.so.0/libexpat.so.0 (0x00007f6d85446000) libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x00007f6d842f7000) libxml2.so.2 => /opt/vmware/server/lib/lib/libxml2.so.2/libxml2.so.2 (0x00007f6d840bb000) libstdc++.so.6 => /opt/vmware/server/lib/lib/libstdc++.so.6/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f6d83dbd000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f6d83ba1000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /opt/vmware/server/lib/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f6d83994000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f6d8363b000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f6d8536e000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f6d83437000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007f6d831b6000) Output of emerge --info: Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.4.3, glibc-2.11-r1, 2.6.33-gentoo-r1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.33-gentoo-r1-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_X2_Dual_Core_Processor_6000+-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 06:00:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.1_p5 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.10 dev-lang/python: 2.6.5-r1, 3.1.2-r2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.1.0 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.6.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r4, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.33 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA PUEL" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -msse3 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /var/bind" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -msse3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ http://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo/ ftp://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo/ " LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X acl amd64 bash-completion berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cups cxx dri fortran gdbm gnome gpm iconv ipv6 jpeg ldap mmx modules mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp openssl pam pcre perl png pppd python qt3support qt4 readline reflection session spl sse sse2 sse3 ssh ssl sysfs tcpd tiff unicode xinerama xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon nv" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 292771 ***
