Today I upgraded to VMware Workstation 5.5.2 on my notebook, which runs Debian testing. When I started VMware, I got the following in a terminal window, but the VMware window didn’t appear:

/usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/local/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)
/usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/local/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)

After a bit of judicious Googling, it seems that the above libpng errors are red herrings and that the problem is caused by an incorrect libdbus being loaded by VMware. The solution is to preload the correct version of libdbus. For more information, including a solution, see this thread on the VMware forums. Apparently newer versions of Ubuntu exhibit the same problem.

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