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After much frustration with vmware’s web interface crashing (See errors/notes below), I finally?discovered the correct google search phrase to?reveal?the solution.

 

Basically, glibc that gets installed/upgraded with CentOS 5.4 is causing the vmware-hostd to crash. See the following URL/Address for details.

 

http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3884

 

Here is how I resolved the issue on my CentOS 5.4 system.

Add the following line to /etc/yum.conf to keep yum from updating the glibc libraries.
exclude=glibc*?

#wget http://vault.centos.org/5.3/os/i386/CentOS/glibc-2.5-34.i386.rpm
#wget http://vault.centos.org/5.3/os/i386/CentOS/glibc-common-2.5-34.i386.rpm

# rpm -Uvh –oldpackage glibc*
error: Failed dependencies:
??????? glibc = 2.5-42.el5_4.3 is needed by (installed) nscd-2.5-42.el5_4.3.i386

# rpm -e nscd
error: Failed dependencies:
??????? nscd is needed by (installed) nss_ldap-253-22.el5_4.i386

# rpm -e nscd nss_ldap

# rpm -Uvh –oldpackage glibc*
Preparing…??????????????? ############################# [100%]
?? 1:glibc-common?????????? ###########################? [50%]
?? 2:glibc????????????????? ############################## [100%]

# /etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware-mgmt restart

 

Thats it.

The following are all errors that I encountered due to this problem.

?In /var/log/messages

Apr 23 11:48:02 finger watchdog-webAccess: ‘/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/java/jre1.5.0_15/bin/webAccess -client -Xmx64m -XX:MinHeapFreeRatio=30 -XX:MaxHeapFreeRatio=30 -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/common/endorsed -classpath /usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/bin/commons-logging-api.jar -Dcatalina.base=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16 -Dcatalina.home=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start’ exited after 3 seconds (quick failure 4)

Apr 23 11:48:07 finger watchdog-webAccess: End ‘/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/java/jre1.5.0_15/bin/webAccess -client -Xmx64m -XX:MinHeapFreeRatio=30 -XX:MaxHeapFreeRatio=30 -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/common/endorsed -classpath /usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/bin/commons-logging-api.jar -Dcatalina.base=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16 -Dcatalina.home=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start’, failure limit reached

From Internet Explorer, when accessing the web interface.

The server could not complete a request (HTTP 12152)
The server encountered an unexpected condition that
prevented it from fullfilling the request.? If this problem
persists, please contact your system administrator.

Also with?error (HTTP 12029)?