Re: [gentoo-user] vmware fails: Virtual Machine Monitor does not start

["Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Andrey Falko <ma3oxuct@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
>> 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
>>
>
> Can you post the output of the following commands:
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> emerge -pv vmware-modules
>
> modprobe vmmon
>
> We might be able to get to the cause of the problem. I'm having absolutely
> no problems on a 2.6.24.7 kernel and vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r1
>

These are:

treat ~ # emerge -pv vmware-modules

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r1  0 kB

Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
treat ~ # modprobe vmmon
FATAL: Error inserting vmmon
(/lib/modules/2.6.25-gentoo-r8-kosmanor/misc/vmmon.ko): Unknown symbol
in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
treat ~ #


And the symbol reported in dmesg is init_mm

I hope this is enough...  Let me know if you need anything else.




-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD