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Bug 468864 - =app-emulation/vmware-workstation-9.0.2.1031769 (with =sys-fs/udev-200): vmware-networks - Failed to initialize
Summary: =app-emulation/vmware-workstation-9.0.2.1031769 (with =sys-fs/udev-200): vmwa...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: AMD64 Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo VMWare Bug Squashers [disabled]
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Reported: 2013-05-07 12:27 UTC by Touch
Modified: 2015-09-27 21:43 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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strace /opt/vmware/bin/vmware-networks --start (vmware-networks.start.strace.log,6.20 KB, text/plain)
2014-05-31 16:36 UTC, Sumit Khanna 		Details
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Description Touch 2013-05-07 12:27:03 UTC 
After upgrading sys-fs/udev-200 vmware init script failed to start:
# /etc/init.d/vmware start
 * Starting VMware USB Arbitrator ...                                                                                                                                      [ !! ]
 * Starting VMware services ...                                                                                                                                            [ ok ]
Failed to initialize                                                                                                                                                       [ !! ]
 * ERROR: vmware failed to start

digging in problem gets:
# /opt/vmware/bin/vmware-networks --start
Failed to initialize

sys-fs/udev-200 and app-emulation/vmware-workstation-9.0.2.1031769

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1./opt/vmware/bin/vmware-networks --start
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Comment 1 Sumit Khanna 2014-05-31 16:35:39 UTC 
I have the exact same problem:

# /opt/vmware/bin/vmware-networks --start
Failed to initialize

There's no option for more verbose output, nothing written to the system or kernel logs. If I do an lsmod, I see all the vmware modules:

# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
vmnet                  39180  0 
vmblock                 9755  0 
vsock                  37959  0 
vmmon                  60109  0 
vmci                   59264  1 vsock
vboxnetadp             17142  0 
vboxnetflt             13538  0 
vboxdrv              1782829  3 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt
fglrx                8542276  455 

I have the following versions of the vmware packages installed:

vmware-workstation-10.0.2.1744117
vmware-modules-279.2-r1
vmware-tools-9.6.2.1744117

My vmware-modules comes from the gmt-vmware overlay as the ones in portage won't compile for kernel version 3.14.2-gentoo.
Comment 2 Sumit Khanna 2014-05-31 16:36:44 UTC 
Created attachment 377952 [details]
strace /opt/vmware/bin/vmware-networks --start
Comment 3 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester gentoo-dev 2015-09-12 19:52:18 UTC 
Do you still have this problem?
Comment 4 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester gentoo-dev 2015-09-27 21:43:21 UTC 
(In reply to Andreas K. Hüttel from comment #3)
> Do you still have this problem?

No response so far.