Bug#492200: libgtk2.0-0: libgtk upgrade broke vmware

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 24.07.08 17:58:16, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le jeudi 24 juillet 2008 à 17:53 +0200, Andreas Pakulat a écrit :
> > Hmm, looking through vmware's script to setup the library path it seems
> > it already has its own gtk+ libs. Ah, now I remember. The problem is
> > that apparently the gtk libs provided with vmware, don't work with
> > Debian's X11 libs (assertion in xcb_lock.c). So I just tried to replace
> > them with debians system gtk, which worked thus far.
> 
> If you also replace glib and gobject with the system ones, this approach
> should work.

As I said the real problem is that vmware triggers assertions in Xcb.
There's a "proper" workaround for that, which doesn't involve using
system libs so I'm fine with that (didn't find it earlier).

Andreas

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