Bug 117708

Summary:	vmware-config doesn't work after first failure
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Thomas van Kampen <thomasvk>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Thomas van Kampen 2006-01-04 00:27:08 UTC

If you first run vmware-config.pl and it fails for some reason (there was something wrong with my kernel sources) the vmware daemon was stopped and the modules removed. If you try to run the vmware-config.pl script again, you get the error:

Making sure services for VMware Workstation are stopped.

 * ERROR:  "vmware" has not yet been started.
Unable to stop services for VMware Workstation

Execution aborted.

You can't start 'vmware' with /etc/init.d/vmware start because you then get the error:

 * VMware Workstation is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured
 * for the running kernel. To (re-)configure it, invoke the
 * following command: /opt/vmware/workstation/bin/vmware-config.pl.
 * VMware is not properly configured! See above.                                     [ !! ]

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-01-04 01:55:25 UTC


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