Bug 114758 – app-emulation/vmware-player 1.0.0.18007 thinks it is unconfigured after vmware-config.pl

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Hans-Christian Armingeon 2005-12-07 08:06:00 UTC]

Hi,  
  
the vmware initscript thinks, that vmware-player isn't configured, and refuses  
to start. The modules loads into the kernel wirhout problems.  
  
I appended the output of some commands/dmesg/etc.  
 
Please notice, this is amd64. I don't know if thats the issue, but vmware 
player should work on amd64. 
 
Johnny  
  
# /etc/init.d/vmware restart  
 * VMware Virtual Machine Player is installed, but it has not been (correctly)   
configured   
 * for the running kernel. To (re-)configure it, invoke the   
 * following command: /opt/vmware/player/bin/vmware-config.pl.   
 * VMware is not properly configured! See above.                                                                                                                                               
[ !! ]   
   
dmesg:  
[ 1443.077268] /dev/vmmon[6163]: Module vmmon: registered with major=10  
minor=165  
[ 1443.077392] /dev/vmmon[6163]: Module vmmon: initialized  
[ 1443.083862] /dev/vmmon[6170]: Module vmmon: unloaded  
[ 1523.594499] /dev/vmmon[8385]: Module vmmon: registered with major=10  
minor=165  
[ 1523.594514] /dev/vmmon[8385]: Module vmmon: initialized  
  
# /opt/vmware/player/bin/vmware-config.pl  
Making sure services for VMware Virtual Machine Player are stopped.  
  
 * ERROR:  "vmware" has not yet been started.  
  
Configuring fallback GTK+ 2.4 libraries.  
  
Trying to find a suitable vmmon module for your running kernel.  
  
None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Virtual Machine Player is  
suitable for your running kernel.  Do you want this program to try to build the  
vmmon module for your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your  
system)? [yes]  
  
Using compiler "/usr/bin/gcc". Use environment variable CC to override.  
  
What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running  
kernel? [/lib/modules/2.6.14-gentoo-r3/build/include]  
  
Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.  
  
Building the vmmon module.  
  
Using 2.6.x kernel build system.  
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only'  
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.14-gentoo-r3/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD  
SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules  
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.14-gentoo-r3'  
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o  
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.o  
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/common/cpuid.o  
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/common/hash.o  
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/common/memtrack.o  
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/common/phystrack.o  
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/common/task.o  
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/common/vmx86.o  
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/vmcore/moduleloop.o  
  LD [M]  /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/vmmon.o  
  Building modules, stage 2.  
  MODPOST  
  CC      /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/vmmon.mod.o  
  LD [M]  /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/vmmon.ko  
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.14-gentoo-r3'  
cp -f vmmon.ko ./../vmmon.o  
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only'  
The module loads perfectly in the running kernel.  
  
You have already setup networking.  
  
Would you like to skip networking setup and keep your old settings as they are?  
(yes/no) [no] yes  
  
Extracting the sources of the vmnet module.  
  
Building the vmnet module.  
  
Using 2.6.x kernel build system.  
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmnet-only'  
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.14-gentoo-r3/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD  
SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules  
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.14-gentoo-r3'  
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config1/vmnet-only/driver.o  
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config1/vmnet-only/hub.o  
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config1/vmnet-only/userif.o  
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config1/vmnet-only/netif.o  
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config1/vmnet-only/bridge.o  
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config1/vmnet-only/procfs.o  
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config1/vmnet-only/smac_compat.o  
  SHIPPED /tmp/vmware-config1/vmnet-only/smac_linux.x86_64.o  
  LD [M]  /tmp/vmware-config1/vmnet-only/vmnet.o  
  Building modules, stage 2.  
  MODPOST  
Warning: could not open /tmp/vmware-config1/vmnet-only/includeCheck.h: Invalid  
argument  
  CC      /tmp/vmware-config1/vmnet-only/vmnet.mod.o  
  LD [M]  /tmp/vmware-config1/vmnet-only/vmnet.ko  
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.14-gentoo-r3'  
cp -f vmnet.ko ./../vmnet.o  
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmnet-only'  
The module loads perfectly in the running kernel.  
  
 * VMware Virtual Machine Player is installed, but it has not been (correctly)  
configured  
 * for the running kernel. To (re-)configure it, invoke the  
 * following command: /opt/vmware/player/bin/vmware-config.pl.  
 * VMware is not properly configured! See above.                                                                                                                                              
[ !! ]  
  
The configuration of VMware Virtual Machine Player 1.0.0 build-18007 for Linux  
for this running kernel completed successfully.  
  
You can now run VMware Virtual Machine Player by invoking the following  
command:  
"/opt/vmware/player/bin/vmplayer".  
  
Enjoy,  
  
--the VMware team  
  
  
  
Portage 2.0.53 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r3,   
2.6.14-gentoo-r3 x86_64)   
=================================================================   
System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r3 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+   
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre11   
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2   
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17   
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7   
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:  2.15.92.0.2-r10, 2.16.1-r1   
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.20-r1   
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r3   
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"   
AUTOCLEAN="yes"   
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"   
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=k8 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"   
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"   
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /lib/modules /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"   
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d"   
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=k8 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"   
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"   
FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict userpriv"   
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.server.whnetz/pub/mirrors/gentoo   
ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/"   
MAKEOPTS="-j4"   
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"   
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"   
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"   
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"   
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"   
USE="amd64 16bit 3dnowex X X509 Xaw3d a52 aac aalib accessibility accounting   
acl acpi activefilter ada adns aim aio aliaschain alsa amuled ao apache2 apm   
applet ares arts artswrappersuid artworkextra asf asterisk async athena atm   
auctex audiofile authdaemond automount avantgo bash-completion bcmath berkdb   
bidi big-tables bind-mysql bitmap-fonts bl blas blender-game bluetooth bmp   
bootsplash boundchecking bri brltty buffysize bzip2 bzlib c++ cairo calendar   
callbacks camaelon caps cdda cddb cdio cdparanoia cdr cgi chasen chroot   
clearcase clearpasswd clisp cluster cnamefix codecs corba cpudetection crypt   
cscope css ctype cups curl curlwrappers customlog daap dbase dbm dbus dbx   
dedicated devfs26 devmap dga dhcp dio directfb divx4linux djbfft dlz dpms dts   
dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread dynagraph eap-tls ecc edirectory edl eds elf emacs   
emboss encode erandom esd ethereal evo examples exif expat extensions   
extraengine f77 faac faad fam fame fastcgi fax fb fbcon fbdev festival ffcall   
ffmpeg fftw firefox flac flash flatfile flexresp flood floppy-boot floppyboot   
floppyd florz fltk fluidsynth follow-xff font-server foomaticdb fortran fping   
fpx frascend freetts freetype frlargefiles frxp ftp fwdzone gb gcc-libffi gcj   
gd gd-external gdbm geoip geometry ggi gif gimpprint ginac glibc-compat20 glitz   
glut gnokii gnome gnome-print gnomedb gnutls gphoto2 gpm gps graphviz gs gsl   
gsm gsnd gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal haskell howl hpn httpd hub ibm   
iconv icq icu idea idled idn ieee1394 imagemagic imagemagick imap imlib imlib2   
immqt inetd inifile inkjar inline innodb insecure-drivers intl ipalias iproute2   
ipv6 irda irmc isdn jabber jack jack-tmpfs java javascript jbig jce jikes jit   
jks jms john joystick jpeg jpeg2k junit jython kcal kde kdeenablefinal kerberos   
kig-scripting koffice-plugin kqemu krb4 ladcca ladspa large-domain latex lcd   
lcms ldap ldb leim lesstif libcaca libclamav libedit libg++ libgda   
libsamplerate libwww linguas_en_GB linguas_es linugas_de linuguas_fr lirc live   
lm_sensors logitech-mouse logrotate lua lynxkeymap lzo lzw lzw-tiff mad maildir   
maildrop mailwrapper matroska matrox mbox mbrola mcal mcve md5sum mecab   
memlimit messages mgetty mhash mikmod mime ming mjpeg mmap mng mod modelock   
mozcalendar mozdevelop mozilla mozsvg mozxmlterm mp3 mpeg mpeg2 mpeg4 mplayer   
mppe-mppc msn mule multicall multipleip multiprocess multislot musepack   
musicbrainz mysql mysql41 mythtv nagios-dns nagios-ntp nagios-ping nagios-ssh   
nas ncurses neXt netboot netcdf nethack network neural new-login nfs nis nls   
nntp non-flattened nptl nptlonly nsplugin numeric oav objc odbc offensive ofx   
ogg oggvorbis on-the-fly-crypt openexr opengl openntpd osc oscar oss pam   
pam_chroot pam_console pam_timestamp parse-clocks pascal pcap pcapnav pccts   
pcntl pcre pcsc-lite pda pdflib perforce perl pg-hier pg-intdatetime   
pg-vacuumdelay php physfs pic plotutils plugin png pnp portaudio posix postfix   
postgres povray ppds pppd prelude pri procmail profile pwdb pxeserial pyste   
python qemu-fast qhull qt quicktime quotas radius rar rc5 rdesktop readline   
real remote resperl rhino rle roundrobin rpm rrdtool rtc ruby samba sametime   
sample sasl sblive scanner screen sdk sdl semanticfix sendfile sensord serial   
server session sftplogging sguil shaper shared sharedmem silc simplexml skey   
slang slp smartcard smime smp sms smtp smux sndfile snmp snortsam soap sockets   
socks5 softmmu softquota soundtouch sox spamassassin speex spell spl sql sqlite   
srp ssl static-modules stats stencil-buffer stream streamzap subject-rewrite   
subtitles subversion svg swat sysfs syslog sysvipc szip tcltk tcpd   
termcap-compat test tetex tga theora threads tidy tiff timidity tokenizer   
toolbar tools transcode transparent-proxy truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts   
ucs2 udev udpfromto underscores unicode urandom usb userlocales utf8 v4l v4l2   
vcd vchroot vda vdesktop vhosts vim-with-x virus-scan visualization vlm   
vmdbmysql vmdbpostgres vorbis vpopmail wddx webdav wifi winbind wmf wxgtk1   
wxwindows x11vnc xanim xbase xface xforms xfs xim xine xinerama xinetd xml xml2   
xmlrpc xmms xosd xpm xprint xscreensaver xsl xv xvid xvmc yahoo yaz yv12 zaptel   
zero-penalty-hit zeroconf zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"   
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS

[Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-12-07 09:32:30 UTC]

Wow.  Is that every USE flag supported by Gentoo?  Have you checked /etc/vmware
to make sure a not_configured file still isn't sitting around?

[Comment 2 Hans-Christian Armingeon 2005-12-07 09:45:03 UTC]

I ran config .pl a few times, but in vetc vmware is still the not_configured 
file. 
 
And guess what.... rm /etc/vmware/not_configured fixed it. 
 
I don't close this bug, because there's a misbehaviour of that package. I don't 
know perl, or ow to fix that. 
 
Johnny 
 
# ls -la /etc/vmware/ 
total 80 
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 Dec  7 16:57 . 
drwxr-xr-x  97 root root  4096 Dec  7  2005 .. 
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   246 Dec  7 18:41 config 
drwxr-xr-x   9 root root  4096 Nov 30 16:48 init.d 
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root root 15523 Nov 30 16:48 installer.sh 
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 20947 Dec  7 18:41 locations 
-rw-r--r--   1 root root     0 Nov 30 16:48 not_configured 
 

[Comment 3 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-12-07 10:22:54 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 95761 ***