prelink breaks VMware 4.5.2 on FC2?

[Jonathan Rawle]

D. D. Brierton wrote:


> which never had any replies. Unfortunately, in my case running
> vmware-config.pl doesn't help. However the only thing that happened to
> my system between me using VMware last night and trying to use it this
> morning was the running of the cron jobs. As I can't imaging that
> updatedb or logrotate could have effected VMware I can only assume it
> was prelink.
> 

Edit /etc/sysconfig/prelink to say:

PRELINKING=no

then run

prelink -ua

to un-prelink everything.

If vmware works now, you'll know what the problem was.


A work-around is to stop prelink from prelinking the vmware binaries. I
don't know where vmware stores its files, but they must be in a directory
listed in /etc/prelink.conf. I suggest moving them to a different directory
not listed in prelink.conf, then symlinking them from their old location.
(prelink won't follow symlinks if the directory is prefixed with -l in
prelink.conf, which they all seem to be by default).

Is there a list of binaries to exclude from prelinking somewhere? I can't
remember, but if there is that would be an easier way to do it.

Jonathan