A while ago I've encountered some errors on vmware startup after an upgrade. One of them was:
/opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.1' not found (required by /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/lib/libvmwareui.so.0/libvmwareui.so.0)
This is probably harmless, and the solution was easy:
$ VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=yes vmware
The other one was more mystifying. After starting the UI and clicking the play button I get the familiar "find and run vmware-config.pl" message, which usually means the kernel modules haven't been compiled.
By the vmware-config.pl file has been removed, and besides the modules seemed to load fine.
Today I've upgraded again (after a kernel upgrade as well that solved some vmware-modules compilation problems) and got this again.
Luckily I found the solution here. Just remove a pesky /etc/vmware/not_configured file and you're good to go.
Since I knew I would probably forget about it by the time I encountered this problem again, I renamed it to something very descriptive: not_configured.this_file_makes_vmware_puke.
In second thought, I realized I should probably put it in the blog if I'd ever want to find it again.
Arrrgghh...
