Vmware and 'error while loading shared libraries': Suse's new gdk-pixbuf rpm is broken

By jeltsch on Wed, 04/04/2007 - 22:48

Still yesterday I have been running VMware on Suse Linux 9.1 and today (after I performed an online update of my system) I get: error while loading shared libraries: /opt/gnome/lib/gdk-pixbuf/loaders/libpixbufloader-xpm.so: Suse has broken this package... But I didn't have any problems so far to run VMware, so I just have to figure out what I did today to break it. Apparently this error is due to my recent automatic update of my system: the culprit is gdk-pixbuf package 0.22.0-62.4. After I reverted to the older package 0.22.0-57 vmware started working again. To revert, just use from the command line: rpm -e --nodeps gdk-pixbuf Then install the older rpm (gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-57.i586.rpm from the original Suse 9.1 CDs or ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.1/suse/i586/gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-57.i586.rpm). Addendum: VMware works with the new gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-62.7.i586.rpm!