Bug 169252

Summary:	vmware-modules doesn't work anymore
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Patrizio Bassi <patrizio.bassi>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	2006.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Patrizio Bassi 2007-03-04 09:37:05 UTC

Using 2.6.19 and 2.6.20 i got vmware not working anymore using gentoo scripts.

modules are not loaded and start script fails.

* Starting VMware services:                                                                                                                                   [ ok ]
 *   Virtual machine monitor                                                                                                                                   [ !! ]
 *   Virtual ethernet                                                                                                                                          [ !! ]
 *   Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0                                                                                                                         [ !! ]
 *   Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 (background)                                                                                                          [ ok ]
 *   NAT service on /dev/vmnet8                                                                                                                                [ !! ]

every time you get asked to reconfigure it again.

in the  meanwhile an update to the patch is out, but seems not fixing the problem.
http://knihovny.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/vmware-any-any-update108.tar.gz

any idea?

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-03-04 09:51:29 UTC

What about looking into /var/log/messages and posting some errors? We really cannot guess.