On the forums in response to my suggestion to downgrade the lib, Heroprotago suggests using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable to force vmware to use the glib it is shipped with.
He suggests putting this in the vmware shell script. I would recommend creating your own shell script that exports this environment variable and calls the vmware script so it is persistent across vmware upgrades.
On the forums in response to my suggestion to downgrade the lib, Heroprotago suggests using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable to force vmware to use the glib it is shipped with.
export LD_PRELOAD= /usr/lib/ vmware/ lib/libglib- 2.0.so. 0/libglib- 2.0.so. 0
He suggests putting this in the vmware shell script. I would recommend creating your own shell script that exports this environment variable and calls the vmware script so it is persistent across vmware upgrades.
Visit the following links for information:
http:// ubuntuforums. org/showpost. php?p=10721766& postcount= 17 developers- developers- developers. blogspot. com/2011/ 04/ubuntu- 1104-vmware- player- dies-when. html
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It is a usable workaround while waiting for a fix.