vmware crash on startup after curl update

After today update of debian Sid VMWare keep crashing on startup without any interesting log. . The crash it’s caused by the curl update that changed the lib interface. There are two ways of solving t...

After today update of debian Sid VMWare keep crashing on startup without any interesting log.

. The crash it’s caused by the curl update that changed the lib interface.

There are two ways of solving this: downgrade Curl (i.e. using snapshot debian) or applying a patch that force vmware to use its own libcurl instead of the system one.

Thewe are the 2 patches, one for vmware and one for vmplayer:

--- /usr/bin/vmware-original 2013-02-09 18:22:36.194459631 +0100
+++ /usr/bin/vmware 2013-02-09 18:22:45.234459997 +0100
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@

if "$BINDIR"/vmware-modconfig --appname="VMware Workstation" --icon="vmware-workstation" &amp;&amp;
/sbin/modinfo vmmon; then
+ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libcurl.so.4
exec "$libdir"/bin/"vmware" "$@"
fi

--- /usr/bin/vmware-original 2013-02-09 18:22:36.194459631 +0100
+++ /usr/bin/vmware 2013-02-09 18:22:45.234459997 +0100
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@

if "$BINDIR"/vmware-modconfig --appname="VMware Workstation" --icon="vmware-workstation" &amp;&amp;
/sbin/modinfo vmmon; then
+ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libcurl.so.4
exec "$libdir"/bin/"vmware" "$@"
fi

--- /usr/bin/vmplayer-original 2013-01-30 22:06:11.253190017 +0100
+++ /usr/bin/vmplayer 2013-02-09 20:38:33.488125792 +0100
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@

if "$BINDIR"/vmware-modconfig --appname="VMware Player" --icon="vmware-player" &amp;&amp;
/sbin/modinfo vmmon; then
+ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libcurl.so.4
exec "$libdir"/bin/"vmplayer" "$@"
fi

I decided to apply the patches so that I can update the whole system.

--- /usr/bin/vmplayer-original 2013-01-30 22:06:11.253190017 +0100
+++ /usr/bin/vmplayer 2013-02-09 20:38:33.488125792 +0100
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@

if "$BINDIR"/vmware-modconfig --appname="VMware Player" --icon="vmware-player" &amp;&amp;
/sbin/modinfo vmmon; then
+ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libcurl.so.4
exec "$libdir"/bin/"vmplayer" "$@"
fi