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 1L05Uv-0007Wg-FJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:30:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5AB09E02D3; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:30:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.170]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D71BE02D3 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:30:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 30so919837ugs.39 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:30:22 -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=yxaoSc7sYWTinQZK1YHodeR7iJPwjLZcg/YeWTv7bR4=; b=Rgnm7aMX7i5XeHJ9AxYnZlaOyd3qK67L3Nwesx7qoyFPsrOMl/MvHkUAOq6VKJtGYU 352JsA9lzEWBOPPYtAV5T5jnUYyK+U5SYjjGlx5hPRfin2S1ONlN4yWgzzowHt5eMEqF KYsmIuhduygpLy7ns+F8BPzfl1RVixrF2e9rs= 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=qamjPrJrwcWID5pwQsZ4xMDKWc/NfFfSvAMcmdnQQtRnbuL/vVjYbaeraVYNqVMxtx 5lAokRKgkS2u+Us1YxnOcxpAq1MpW2K9tCtjee6ZQKPHTz5wuTibHccVX6eIBQ8Byv5v ZPUWYQhx8nVYVCRV7P9Lvy/+BczJTyozEppCg= Received: by 10.103.52.7 with SMTP id e7mr4964384muk.115.1226457021942; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:30:21 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.103.229.9 with HTTP; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:30:21 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <9acccfe50811111830t158acd3fsf203c1fcdab9ac18@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:30:21 -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: <350fc7cf0811111504k570abab6y944557bea952ab68@mail.gmail.com> 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> <9acccfe50811111453p7e3b539dx449caa632f484d67@mail.gmail.com> <350fc7cf0811111504k570abab6y944557bea952ab68@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: d9c3cab3-0c0d-4c9b-856e-e70a7ccbb59a X-Archives-Hash: ae31f36b3eee6285a0d306409135cbf4 On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Andrey Falko wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 2:53 PM, 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? >> >> >> >> -- >> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD >> > > Can you post the output of the following commands: > > 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