I have CentOS 5.4 Kernel version 2.6.18-164.15.1.e15 and upgraded my VMWare server to 2.0.2-203138.x86_64 version. Running vmware-config.pl worked fine and the modules loaded successfully. However, when I login into the VMWare console, the vmserver crashed immediately. Looking through various websites and forums, I came across the following solution. I have provided the updated solution according to my environment. But the credit goes to bwlinux of the following forum
http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3884
Steps I followed:
mkdir /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libc.so.6
cd /tmp
mkdir tmp
cd tmp
wget http://vault.centos.org/5.3/os/x86_64/CentOS/glibc-2.5-34.x86_64.rpm
rpm2cpio glibc-2.5-34.x86_64.rpm | cpio -ivd
cd /tmp
mkdir tmp
cd tmp
wget http://vault.centos.org/5.3/os/x86_64/CentOS/glibc-2.5-34.x86_64.rpm
rpm2cpio glibc-2.5-34.x86_64.rpm | cpio -ivd
mv /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libc.so.6/libc.so.6 /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libc.so.6/libc.so.6.bak
mv lib/libc-2.5.so /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libc.so.6/libc.so.6
mv lib/libc-2.5.so /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libc.so.6/libc.so.6
Edit /usr/sbin/vmware-hostd,
add an “export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libc.so.6:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH” before the last line.
sudo /etc/init.d/vmware restart