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

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

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Noven <lists@magedata.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:03:55 Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Allistar <allistar.m@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Kevin O'Gorman 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?
>> >
>> > 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

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD