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 1L02OU-0001ds-9e for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:11:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CC093E0333; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:11:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E84BE0333 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:11:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B014B64453 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:11:28 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: 0.681 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.681 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=1.213, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=2.067] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 37mqhfipg8XF for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:11:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8AED641DE for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:11:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1L02OC-0002pX-9G for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:11:16 +0000 Received: from 202.0.36.169 ([202.0.36.169]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:11:16 +0000 Received: from allistar.m by 202.0.36.169 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:11:16 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Allistar Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware fails: Virtual Machine Monitor does not start Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:12:07 +1300 Message-ID: References: <9acccfe50811101924m5c0b50a9kba4fd3340daa4ba@mail.gmail.com> <20081111084315.6f6bc10c@digimed.co.uk> <9acccfe50811111453p7e3b539dx449caa632f484d67@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=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 202.0.36.169 User-Agent: KNode/0.10.9 Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: add3fdf2-7f7a-44e3-b186-9fcd3b7d7881 X-Archives-Hash: 9b06c38c0fadeb0004a31af07fadf4c0 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.