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Ubuntu 15.10, System Monitor doesn't launch. Trying to launch from terminal gets this error: 

gnome-system-monitor: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgiomm-2.4.so.1: undefined symbol: _ZN4Glib11VariantTypeD1Ev
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Can you tell me the contents of the directory /etc/ls.so.conf.d, and if it exists, the contents of he file /etc/ld.so.conf.d/LD_LIBRARY_PATH.conf – Charles Green Nov 16 '15 at 14:46
    
Thanks! quin@quin-ubuntu:~$ ls /etc/ld.so.conf.d fakeroot-x86_64-linux-gnu.conf libc.conf i386-linux-gnu.conf x86_64-linux-gnu.conf i386-linux-gnu_GL.conf x86_64-linux-gnu_EGL.conf LD_LIBRARY_PATH.conf x86_64-linux-gnu_GL.conf – user3865491 Nov 16 '15 at 18:22
    
LD_LIBRARY_PATH.conf = /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libglibmm-2.4.so.1 – user3865491 Nov 16 '15 at 18:23
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K - You are loading a library specific to VMWare, so I assume that you need to use that program, like I do.

1st: Edit /usr/bin/vmware and add the line

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libglibmm-2.4.so.1/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

anywhere around the line which says set -e.

If you use VMPlayer, do the same for /usr/bin/vmplayer

Remove the file /etc/ld.so.conf.d/LD_LIBRARY_PATH.conf

Execute the command sudo ldconfig

All should work properly at this point.

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Yep, you're the man of the hour! Worked great for VMPlayer. – user3865491 Nov 16 '15 at 19:45

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