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