Bug 489252 – app-emulation/open-vm-tools-2013.09.16.1328054 modprobe: FATAL: Module vmblock not found.

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Marcin Mirosław 2013-10-24 11:09:01 UTC]

/etc/init.d/vmware-tools restart
 * Cleaning the contents of /tmp/VMwareDnD ...                       [ ok ]
 * Unmounting vmblock device ...                                     [ ok ]
 * Stopping vmtoolsd ...                                             [ ok ]
 * Loading vmblock module ...
modprobe: FATAL: Module vmblock not found.                           [ !! ]
 * Mounting vmblock device ...
mount: mount point /proc/fs/vmblock/mountPoint does not exist        [ !! ]
 * Starting vmtoolsd ...                                             [ ok ]



Reproducible: Always




# emerge --info
Portage 2.2.7 (default/linux/amd64/13.0, gcc-4.7.3, glibc-2.15-r3, 3.10.7-gentoo-r1 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-3.10.7-gentoo-r1-x86_64-Intel-R-_Xeon-R-_CPU_L7555_@_1.87GHz-with-gentoo-2.2
KiB Mem:    18455192 total,  18005384 free
KiB Swap:    1048572 total,   1048572 free
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 09:30:01 +0000
ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.1
app-shells/bash:          4.2_p45
dev-lang/python:          2.7.5-r3, 3.2.5-r3
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.28
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.2
sys-apps/openrc:          0.11.8
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.6-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.69
sys-devel/automake:       1.13.4
sys-devel/binutils:       2.23.1
sys-devel/gcc:            4.7.3-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.7.3
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.2
sys-devel/make:           3.82-r4
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.9 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.15-r3
Repositories: gentoo
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=corei7 -mtune=native -fno-unwind-tables -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/bind"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=corei7 -mtune=native -fno-unwind-tables -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs collision-protect compressdebug config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="-O"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
USE="acl acpi amd64 bash-completion caps cli cracklib crypt cxx dri iconv iproute2 logrotate mmap mmx modules mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl openmp pam pcre profile readline session sharedmem sse sse2 ssl threads threadsafe unicode urandom vim vim-pager vim-syntax zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_default authn_file authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif status unique_id usertrack vhost_alias" APACHE2_MPMS="prefork" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="en" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19 ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint intel mach64 mga nouveau nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa via vmware dummy v4l" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, SYNC, USE_PYTHON

[Comment 1 Mike Gilbert 2013-10-31 16:49:18 UTC]

Hmm... I'm not quite sure how to solve this; the vmblock driver is obsolete on recent kernels.

[Comment 2 Mike Gilbert 2013-10-31 18:43:46 UTC]

I guess I will probably try to call vmware-vmblock-fuse if present, and fall back to the vmblock kernel module if not.

[Comment 3 Mike Gilbert 2013-10-31 20:09:00 UTC]

+  31 Oct 2013; Mike Gilbert <[e-mail]> files/open-vm-tools.initd:
+  Rewrite init script, bug 489252.