I've got vmware-workstation-5.5.0, baselayout-1.11.14 and gentoo-sources-2.6.14-r2. I've already run vmware-config and rebooted the machine several times. I've got vmnet8 configured as bridged with my ethernet card eth0. Everything worked fine with vmware 5.0. Any ping attempt on the local network from or to this host and another physical host fails with a "host unreachable" error. ethereal shows that (when pinged) the system does receive the ARP requests, but it never responds to them. Workaround 1: /etc/init.d/vmware stop Workaround 2: revert to vmware-workstation-5.0, re-run vmware-config and reboot In both cases, the problem disappers. # route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 151.6.131.65 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0 192.168.52.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 vmnet8 192.168.52.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo default 151.6.131.65 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 ppp0 # emerge info Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-Os -pipe -march=athlon-xp -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions=4 -mfpmath=sse" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-Os -pipe -march=athlon-xp -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions=4 -mfpmath=sse" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig digest distcc distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.gg3.net/ ftp://ftp.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/GENTOO http://gentoo.channelx.biz/ http://ftp.isu.edu.tw/pub/Linux/Gentoo ftp://ftp.isu.edu.tw/pub/Linux/Gentoo" LANG="it_IT@euro" LINGUAS="it" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowex X X509 a52 aac aaca52 aad adns alsa apache2 audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdparanoia cdr chroot crypt cscope cups curl dga dts dvb dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode erandom ethereal exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac flash foomaticdb fortran freetype gd gdbm ggi gif gimpprint ginac glut gmp gnutls gpm gtk gtk2 guile hal idn imagemagick imap imlib innodb ipv6 jack java javascript jikes jpeg junit kerberos krb4 lcms ldap libcaca libg++ libwww live lzo mad matroska mcal md5sum memlimit mhash mikmod ming mmx mmxext mng motif mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg mpi mysql ncurses network nls nptl nsplugin nvidia odbc offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl pam parse-clocks pcre pdflib perl pic plotutils png postgres ppds prelude python qhull qt quicktime readline real recode rtc samba scanner sdl skey slang slp sndfile snmp socks5 speex spell sqlite sse ssl stream svg tcltk tcpd tetex tga theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb v4l v4l2 vcd vorbis win32codecs wmf wxwindows xine xml xml2 xosd xprint xv xvid xvmc yaz zlib linguas_it userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
Just curious, but what if you use another version of baselayout (such as latest ~arch version)?
baselayout-1.12.0_pre11-r3 freezes on startup and I can't downgrade to 1.11.13-r1 without downgrading ivman+dbus+hald too (which SO suck in the x86 version) :(
mmmh now that I think about it, I upgraded vmware first and baselayout then, so I can't say that vmware-5.0 works with the current config.
I cannot reproduce this. I have tried using the latest stable baselayout as well as the latest ~x86 version and am having no issues. I use bridged vmnet exclusively.
is your route output equivalent to mine? that is, have you got this? 192.168.52.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 vmnet8 192.168.52.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 (I think that the order is important, too)
I do not have vmnet8 in my route statement, at all.
ok, I found out that it's a 5.0 --> 5.5 transition problem. SOLUTION: # emerge unmerge vmware-workstation # rm -rf /etc/vmware/* # rm -f /etc/init.d/vmware # rm -f /dev/vmnet* # emerge vmware-workstation **REBOOT** # /opt/vmware/bin/vmware-config.pl note that the reboot IS necessary, or else vmware-config will complain about bad kernel version. I think you should add a note about this in postinst().
Actually, I'd already made changes (and version bumped) the 3.x 4.x and 5.0 ebuilds to account for this error. It is most likely a permissions issue with /etc/vmware that caused it. A reboot is only ever necessary if the kernel in /usr/src/linux is not the same as your running kernel. For exqample, if you had built a new kernel, but had not yet rebooted.
>A reboot is only ever necessary if the kernel in /usr/src/linux is not the same as your running kernel. For exqample, if you had built a new kernel, but had not yet rebooted. Nope. I did NOT rebuild the kernel, nor did any other modifications to it.
