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 1L0270-0000Eb-6N for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:53:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B15F0E02C6; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:53:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.187]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AA80E02C6 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:53:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c7so86265nfi.26 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:53:25 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=QTieuftU1E+2mpvAmcL9dEsEGmIo/K1BiqyPisn/GtE=; b=IGJc4kg4QFEIsFQdR3l+RwFpcE+cD8fFuIrFRVTRpMhOn3N/tsT5D02Gfu9wMv8nPI ZfIAKwdV0+ib9ylkC+ot1m5LBfziEfnprYrOUajmtst1QyQehrvadNiAgV7Dx7tAMi1d gO2tJQB6qfa2jIrsBYR2iwtesd2NtzJYyQMSc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=Jd+HxrU8KDBxjfjd5hMofO3ANKS8k+mc8WpIqHBotWqJI6EfJ5EzgbPzDlm68+O/U3 dX/OeTIfWpbGXFvfk9vbkH4siSJsOMetiC+KuCiIrNpJUy4bngy9esj+xjjlojN9QWJl WIOda22YXY+v0vIZ3+tHz5BlJSXSAil5Xfprs= Received: by 10.103.165.18 with SMTP id s18mr4886599muo.124.1226444004866; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:53:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.103.229.9 with HTTP; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:53:24 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <9acccfe50811111453p7e3b539dx449caa632f484d67@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:53:24 -0800 From: "Kevin O'Gorman" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] vmware fails: Virtual Machine Monitor does not start In-Reply-To: <20081111084315.6f6bc10c@digimed.co.uk> 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 Content-Disposition: inline References: <9acccfe50811101924m5c0b50a9kba4fd3340daa4ba@mail.gmail.com> <20081111084315.6f6bc10c@digimed.co.uk> X-Archives-Salt: fc238781-72e5-47fb-921e-0423e40cfda0 X-Archives-Hash: 4ad3bdac2d091ee98aed141d2b259d0f 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? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD