[Bug 59232] Re: libhal1 0.5.7.1-0ubuntu8 with new dbus breaks vmware

[Sebastian Dröge]

I don't see how libhal's ABI changed here... libhal should be exactly
the same but linked against the new libdbus-1.

According to the vmware forum thread it's caused by having libdbus-1.so.2 and libdbus-1.so.3 on the same system at the same time. vmware loads the former, hal the second and things explode (for whatever reason). IMHO this is a vmware bug but unfortunately we can't fix anything there....
What exactly are you proposing? Reverting the dbus transition?

Another workaround mentioned there is
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3 vmware

Maybe we should go with that until vmware is fixed...

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libhal1 0.5.7.1-0ubuntu8 with new dbus breaks vmware
https://launchpad.net/bugs/59232