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... -- libhal1 0.5.7.1-0ubuntu8 with new dbus breaks vmware https://launchpad.net/bugs/59232 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
