From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L07A8-0005SV-Is for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:17:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 43CD8E0352; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:17:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.internode.on.net (bld-mail09.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.73]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6100FE0352 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:17:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lascivio (unverified [150.101.114.61]) by mail.internode.on.net (SurgeMail 3.8f2) with ESMTP id 48239112-1927428 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:46:57 +1030 (CDT) To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware fails: Virtual Machine Monitor does not start Content-Disposition: inline From: Noven Organization: Magedata Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:16:47 +1100 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200811121516.47963.lists@magedata.net> X-Archives-Salt: 5d9662e5-f160-4b3d-b290-861fba040843 X-Archives-Hash: da2d2ccd820f341bb3c880187255c433 On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:19:33 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Noven wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:03:55 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Allistar wrote: > >> > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> >> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Neil Bothwick > >> >> > >> >> wrote: > >> >>> On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:24:15 -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> >>>> I've re-emerge vmware-modules, re-run ...vmware-config.pl, and > >> >>>> prayed. I still cannot do > >> >>>> /etc/init.d/vmware start > >> >>>> because this one part fails: Virutal machine Monitor > >> >>>> and trying "vmware&" says I need to run the config script (again). > >> >>>> > >> >>>> I'm getting nowhere and I really do want to run that VM again. > >> >>> > >> >>> Have you updated your kernel? VMware Workstation gives me problems > >> >>> like this with each new kernel, which is why I'm still running > >> >>> 2.6.26 on my desktop. > >> >> > >> >> I'm running 2.6.25-r8. I probably have updated since the last time I > >> >> ran VMware. > >> >> But I thought the above steps took care of that. I guess not. > >> >> > >> >> So what do I do now? > >> > > >> > From what I've experienced, the order you emerge vmware-workstation > >> > and vmware-modules is important. When getting the error you mention, a > >> > simple re-emerge of vmware-modules did the job. > >> > >> This did not help. > >> > >> I tried downloading VMWare-workstation, but the emerge fails on fetch > >> restrictions, > >> and the message points to a file on a server that denies it has such a > >> file. > >> > >> The workstation bundle runs an installer that wants a runlevel > >> directory, but rejects > >> the /etc/runlevels directory and subdirectories. I'm guessing it > >> wants something > >> more like SYSV. > > > > In your /etc dir, link rc{0-6}.d and rcS.d to /etc/init.d . > > > > Also ensure vmware-modules is *not* installed before running the > > installer bundle. > > > > Can't remember if I did anythig else tricky, but its workig beautifully > > here. > > > > - Noven > > Okay, now it installs okay, and I can modprobe vmmon. > > However, "vmware" gives me: > > > kevin@treat ~ $ vmware > /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-modconfig: symbol lookup error: > /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libview.so.2/libview.so.2: undefined symbol: > _ZThn8_N3Gtk4HBoxD1Ev > kevin@treat ~ $ > > And I have absolutely no clue what that's about. > > ++ kevin Did you re-run vmware-config.pl? That will recompile modules for your system.You have unmerged vmware-modules before doing this? On mine, K08vmware and S19vmware are links to /etc/init.d/vmware. I recall I pinched the vmware init script out of portage - /usr/portage/app-emulation/vmware-workstation/files/vmware-workstation.rc move it to /etc/init.d, rename it vmware and make it executable. start as normal. - Noven