Bug 347628 – app-emulation/vmware-workstation-6.5.4.246459:unable to power on a virtual machine (Unable to change virtual machine power state: Cannot find a valid peer process to connect to)

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

[Description Volker 2010-12-03 08:12:17 UTC]

I am not able to power on any guest system. 

It does not matter if it is an existing or a newly created virtual machine.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start vmware workstation
2. create a new virtual machine and use it or select an existing one
3. press the green play button and wait.
4. after a while an error message pop up: "Unable to change virtual machine power state: Cannot find a valid peer process to connect to"
Actual Results:  
not able to start virtual machines

Expected Results:  
being able to start virtual machines

# emerge --info
Portage 2.1.9.25 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.4.5, glibc-2.12.1-r3, 2.6.36-gentoo-r3 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.36-gentoo-r3-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T9400_@_2.53GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 20:30:23 +0000
distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled]
ccache version 3.1.3 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     4.1_p9
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r2
dev-lang/python:     2.6.6-r1, 2.7.1, 3.1.3
dev-util/ccache:     3.1.3
dev-util/cmake:      2.8.1-r2
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1-r1
sys-apps/openrc:     0.6.6
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.4
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.68
sys-devel/automake:  1.8.5-r4, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.20.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc:       4.4.5, 4.5.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.4-r1
sys-devel/make:      3.82
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.36.1 (sys-kernel/linux-headers)
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=nocona"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs ccache collision-protect distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages metadata-transfer news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.c3sl.ufpr.br/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.kaist.ac.kr/gentoo/"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
LINGUAS="en de"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/home/volk/data/portage/myOwn /var/lib/layman/ibm-internal /var/lib/layman/vmware"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 apm bash-completion bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr clamav cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam fbsplash ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gimp gpm gtk iconv java jpeg kde laptop lcms ldap libnotify lm_sensors mad mikmod mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib mysql ncurses nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf perl pmu png policykit ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 readline sdl semantic-desktop session spell sse sse2 sse2i ssl startup-notification subversion svg sysfs tcpd tiff truetype udev unicode usb vorbis wifi x264 xcb xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" 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" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock 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 speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" 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="evdev keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en de" PHP_TARGETS="php5-2" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev radeon vesa vmware" 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, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Volker 2010-12-03 08:19:24 UTC]

Created attachment 256211 [details]
ldd output for installed vmware

[Comment 2 Volker 2010-12-03 08:29:50 UTC]

Created attachment 256213 [details]
files from vmware tmp dir

[Comment 3 Volker 2010-12-03 08:36:18 UTC]

Created attachment 256215 [details]
vmware.log from the virtual machine directory

[Comment 4 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) 2010-12-03 11:03:40 UTC]

There is no vmware-workstation-7.1.X on portage. If this is from an external overlay please contact the maintainers of that overlay

[Comment 5 Volker 2010-12-03 13:54:40 UTC]

Comment on attachment 256211 [details]
ldd output for installed vmware

will be replaced with the correct vmware version

[Comment 6 Volker 2010-12-03 13:55:39 UTC]

Comment on attachment 256213 [details]
files from vmware tmp dir

will be replaced with files from the correct vmware version

[Comment 7 Volker 2010-12-03 13:55:46 UTC]

Comment on attachment 256213 [details]
files from vmware tmp dir

will be replaced with files from the correct vmware version

[Comment 8 Volker 2010-12-03 13:56:08 UTC]

Comment on attachment 256215 [details]
vmware.log from the virtual machine directory

will be replaced with files from the correct vmware version

[Comment 9 Volker 2010-12-03 16:11:08 UTC]

Have removed overlay vmware and downgraded to the in tree version app-emulation/vmware-workstation-6.5.4.246459

The result is completely the same and I get again the message "Unable to change virtual machine power state: Cannot find a valid peer process to connect to"

[Comment 10 Volker 2010-12-03 16:11:53 UTC]

Created attachment 256246 [details]
ldd output for installed vmware

[Comment 11 Volker 2010-12-03 16:15:33 UTC]

Created attachment 256247 [details]
files from vmware tmp dir

[Comment 12 Volker 2010-12-03 16:16:21 UTC]

Created attachment 256248 [details]
vmware.log from the virtual machine directory

[Comment 13 Harris Landgarten 2010-12-03 18:22:00 UTC]

Look in the directory when the actual vm is. You will most likely see .lck files there. Delete them and that should fix the issue

[Comment 14 Volker 2010-12-03 19:12:26 UTC]

You are right there are two directories with the extension 'lck' 

I have deleted both, unfortunately the error has not changed and is still preventing me from powering on the virtual machines.

[Comment 15 Volker 2010-12-04 12:06:58 UTC]

Today I have updated the system with the packages listed within the package.lst attachment. After update and a system reboot the vmware virtual machines are able to boot. 

So I do not know exactly what is happen, but now all virtual machines are working well and it seams that the problem is not longer harming me.

[Comment 16 Volker 2010-12-04 12:08:01 UTC]

Created attachment 256306 [details]
list of updated packages

[Comment 17 Vadim Kuznetsov (RETIRED) 2011-03-18 15:54:19 UTC]

(In reply to comment #15)
> Today I have updated the system with the packages listed within the package.lst
> attachment. After update and a system reboot the vmware virtual machines are
> able to boot. 
> 
> So I do not know exactly what is happen, but now all virtual machines are
> working well and it seams that the problem is not longer harming me.

closing bug