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

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

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

I did notice that /etc/init.d has S19vmware and K08vmware entries,
which would be pretty normal for SYSV, except I don't
remember SYSV having them as directories; I would expect them to be
scripts.  Moreover, I have no idea how they should be
invoked. There are other differences from SYSV usage, but that's
probably not germane anyway.

> --
> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
>



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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD