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 1L06GZ-0006YZ-8S for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:19:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6CE42E02E8; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:19:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com (mu-out-0910.google.com [209.85.134.189]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3FADE02E8 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:19:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id i2so191944mue.6 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:19:33 -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=9iN3RPS5EMeA+cDMCRryEEUP75jrJ6ZOWrXDOr66yeY=; b=XX/C4i2uVwb2TXK41r3yzZNQc1QpwVd9tCk/6yBTkMqYbqeMKMB1wlIkqfjOab6Eo6 uBf0oPbz0eefZadHFt3Lwpz+LqaA7Tm0hVNieAaTf8HfdfikR4PoDYc/w+GRSHF/a/s2 hQFktKgb4407HZX4pWjYmRI09As0tTUwXvp6U= 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=H8y29bAxT35QvNIWtg609Sf8TF86uEQ2y+u47LoRc+s4Mr2yiiHAaUjTnzJb4J7mNv eY6MB9ZN/L0l/M9Ig8x6zPifyGa4DClYv5BDDt2mYEzwzx68xlMA4uohJQulVZk3p1S2 K2UdoJ/Y1gg2mQDgqzJIUp4v+mObLu8bupE8E= Received: by 10.103.197.4 with SMTP id z4mr4991908mup.105.1226459973552; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:19:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.103.229.9 with HTTP; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:19:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <9acccfe50811111919k6343cf2cqafd1f46d66bcac36@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:19:33 -0800 From: "Kevin O'Gorman" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware fails: Virtual Machine Monitor does not start In-Reply-To: <200811121334.18686.lists@magedata.net> 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> <9acccfe50811111803n78d2ce04j76833eb764e30993@mail.gmail.com> <200811121334.18686.lists@magedata.net> X-Archives-Salt: a6ef134d-da36-4c40-97e4-5a0bdc8bc321 X-Archives-Hash: 03bd9134d27b99dec728f3b3e3148f3c 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 -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD