Unmasking and installing vmware-workstation-6 and vmware-modules-1.0.0.16 on a clean system (no previous vmware installation) to try it out I found the following: After running vmware-config.pl answering all questions with default answers I tried running /etc/init.d/vmware start and got !! when it tried loading vmmon and ok when it loaded vmnet. Then my system pretty much died. The mouse pointer would still work and the ssh server. Therefore I managed to get a dmesg. I could not get the system halted though... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Relevant part of dmesg: vmmon: no version magic, tainting kernel. /dev/vmmon[5620]: VMCI: Driver initialized. /dev/vmmon[5620]: Module vmmon: registered with major=10 minor=165 Unable to handle kernel paging request at 00000000400273e6 RIP: [<ffffffff8025de57>] get_page_from_freelist+0x27/0x470 PGD 114efe067 PUD 0 Oops: 0000 [1] PREEMPT SMP CPU 0 Modules linked in: vmmon(PF) nvidia(P) Pid: 5620, comm: modprobe Tainted: PF 2.6.22-gentoo-r5 #7 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8025de57>] [<ffffffff8025de57>] get_page_from_freelist+0x27/0x470 RSP: 0000:ffff81011483fcd8 EFLAGS: 00010282 RAX: 000000004002708e RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 000000004002708e RDX: ffffffff80700898 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 00000000000200d2 RBP: ffff81011815cfe0 R08: 3b07555e1015cae5 R09: 6c350a47afc4c562 R10: 0000000000000002 R11: 0000000000000200 R12: 00000000000200d2 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffffff80700890 R15: ffffc2000181adb8 FS: 00002aab4031ab00(0000) GS:ffffffff80769000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 00000000400273e6 CR3: 000000011482a000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 Process modprobe (pid: 5620, threadinfo ffff81011483e000, task ffff81011815cfe0) Stack: 0000000000000002 0000000000000000 000000007783040f 00000044887cfbf0 000200d200000000 ffffffff887c99c7 ffff81012c469800 0000000000000018 ffff81012c469c38 ffffffff887cf100 ffffc2000181adb8 0000000000000000 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8025e307>] __alloc_pages+0x67/0x310 [<ffffffff887c07d6>] :vmmon:HostIF_COWAllocPage+0x17/0x35 [<ffffffff887c7867>] :vmmon:Vmx86_ReleaseVM+0x25e/0x312 [<ffffffff887c7b2c>] :vmmon:Vmx86_InitCOWList+0x75/0x88 [<ffffffff887bd579>] :vmmon:init_module+0x22d/0x179c [<ffffffff8024f68b>] sys_init_module+0x19b/0x18d0 [<ffffffff80209b4e>] system_call+0x7e/0x83 Code: 48 2b 81 58 03 00 00 48 89 4c 24 10 0f b6 4c 24 20 48 89 54 RIP [<ffffffff8025de57>] get_page_from_freelist+0x27/0x470 RSP <ffff81011483fcd8> CR2: 00000000400273e6 note: modprobe[5620] exited with preempt_count 58 vmnet: no version magic, tainting kernel. /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 5653 (vmnet-bridge) /dev/vmnet: hub 0 does not exist, allocating memory. /dev/vmnet: port on hub 0 successfully opened bridge-eth0: enabling the bridge bridge-eth0: up bridge-eth0: already up bridge-eth0: attached BUG: scheduling while atomic: vmnet-bridge/0x00000001/5653 Call Trace: [<ffffffff805d253d>] thread_return+0x224/0x6d7 [<ffffffff805d4ffe>] unlock_kernel+0x2e/0x40 [<ffffffff8028bbba>] do_ioctl+0x9a/0xe0 [<ffffffff8028bc74>] vfs_ioctl+0x74/0x2d0 [<ffffffff8028bf19>] sys_ioctl+0x49/0x80 [<ffffffff80209bb8>] sysret_careful+0xd/0x10 vmnet-bridge[5653]: segfault at 00002b212c73e668 rip 00002b212c73e668 rsp 00007fff7e6150a8 error 4 BUG: scheduling while atomic: vmnet-bridge/0x00000001/5653 Call Trace: [<ffffffff888359c8>] :vmnet:init_module+0xeb/0xbe7 [<ffffffff805d253d>] thread_return+0x224/0x6d7 [<ffffffff8028bbba>] do_ioctl+0x9a/0xe0 [<ffffffff8020a0db>] retint_careful+0xd/0x21 note: vmnet-bridge[5653] exited with preempt_count 1 BUG: scheduling while atomic: vmnet-bridge/0x10000001/5653 Call Trace: [<ffffffff805d253d>] thread_return+0x224/0x6d7 [<ffffffff80227277>] __wake_up_common+0x47/0x70 [<ffffffff8022a57c>] __cond_resched+0x1c/0x50 [<ffffffff805d3272>] cond_resched+0x32/0x40 [<ffffffff80266d4a>] unmap_vmas+0x7ea/0x830 [<ffffffff8026b3d8>] exit_mmap+0x88/0x130 [<ffffffff8022d214>] mmput+0x44/0xd0 [<ffffffff802332d6>] do_exit+0x146/0x910 [<ffffffff8023a330>] __dequeue_signal+0x110/0x1d0 [<ffffffff80233acc>] do_group_exit+0x2c/0x80 [<ffffffff8023c31a>] get_signal_to_deliver+0x2aa/0x460 [<ffffffff80208fd9>] do_notify_resume+0xb9/0x7f0 [<ffffffff805d2319>] thread_return+0x0/0x6d7 [<ffffffff805d236a>] thread_return+0x51/0x6d7 [<ffffffff8028bbba>] do_ioctl+0x9a/0xe0 [<ffffffff8020a12c>] retint_signal+0x3d/0x81 BUG: scheduling while atomic: vmnet-bridge/0x00000001/5653 Call Trace: [<ffffffff805d253d>] thread_return+0x224/0x6d7 [<ffffffff805d2b00>] wait_for_completion+0xa0/0xf0 [<ffffffff8022a0d0>] default_wake_function+0x0/0x10 [<ffffffff80260b15>] release_pages+0x155/0x190 [<ffffffff80242380>] synchronize_rcu+0x30/0x40 [<ffffffff80241f10>] wakeme_after_rcu+0x0/0x10 [<ffffffff888380d2>] :vmnet:VNetBridge_Create+0x352/0x990 [<ffffffff88838112>] :vmnet:VNetBridge_Create+0x392/0x990 [<ffffffff88835f18>] :vmnet:init_module+0x63b/0xbe7 [<ffffffff8027f821>] __fput+0xb1/0x1c0 [<ffffffff8027c774>] filp_close+0x54/0x90 [<ffffffff80231e69>] put_files_struct+0xe9/0x120 [<ffffffff8023330d>] do_exit+0x17d/0x910 [<ffffffff8023a330>] __dequeue_signal+0x110/0x1d0 [<ffffffff80233acc>] do_group_exit+0x2c/0x80 [<ffffffff8023c31a>] get_signal_to_deliver+0x2aa/0x460 [<ffffffff80208fd9>] do_notify_resume+0xb9/0x7f0 [<ffffffff805d2319>] thread_return+0x0/0x6d7 [<ffffffff805d236a>] thread_return+0x51/0x6d7 [<ffffffff8028bbba>] do_ioctl+0x9a/0xe0 [<ffffffff8020a12c>] retint_signal+0x3d/0x81 bridge-eth0: down bridge-eth0: detached # emerge --info Portage 2.1.3.7 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0, gcc-4.2.0, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.22-gentoo-r5 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.22-gentoo-r5 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6750 @ 2.66GHz Gentoo Base System release 1.12.10 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 01:47:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r4, 2.5.1-r2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.10-r4 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.22-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.public.fix.fi/gentoo ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl alsa amd64 arts berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cddb cli cracklib crypt cups dri dvd encode fftw firefox flac fortran gdbm gmedia gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 iconv imlib isdnlog java kde kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility live lzo mad midi mmx mp3 mudflap musepack ncurses nptl nptlonly ogg openexr opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime rdesktop readline reflection rtc ruby samba scanner session speex spell spl srt sse sse2 sse3 ssl svg tcpd tetex theora truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts unicode vim-with-x vorbis webdav wmp x264 xorg 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 mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" CAMERAS="ptp2" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 189062 ***
