when starting vmware-player, the computers gets a kernel panic and reboots Reproducible: Always emegre --info Portage 2.1.9.45 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.5.2, glibc-2.13-r2, 2.6.38-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.38-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_E8400_@_3.00GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.14 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:30:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.7.1-r1, 3.1.3-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.4 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.14-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.21 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.5, 4.5.2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.81-r2 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.38 (sys-kernel/linux-headers) ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA dlj-1.1 skype-eula Broadcom PUEL googleearth LOKI-EULA AdobeFlash-10.1 RTCW-ETEULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe -msse4.1" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib64/fax /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/lib/hsqldb /var/spool/fax/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe -msse4.1" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--keep-going" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs collision-protect distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.isoc.org.il/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo/" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en he es" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--timeout=180" 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="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi aio alsa amd64 amr audiofile berkdb bidi branding bzip2 cairo cdparanoia cdr cjk cli consolekit cracklib crypt css cups curl cxx dbus device-mapper dga dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread edb emboss encode exif faad fam ffmpeg ffmpeg-mt firefox flac fortran ftp gallium gdbm gdu gif gphoto2 gpm gtk iconv icq id3tag ieee1394 imagemagick ivtv java javascript joystick jpeg jpeg2k kde lame lcms ldap lua lzma mad matroska mikmod mmx mng modules mono mp3 mp4 mpeg mtp mudflap multilib nas ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg openexr opengl openmp oss pam pango pcre pdf perl php png policykit ppds pppd private-headers python qt3support qt4 quicktime readline samba scanner sdl session smp sndfile spell srt sse sse2 sse3 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd theora threads tiff truetype udev unicode usb v4l v4l2 vaapi vcd vorbis vpx wavpack wifi wma x264 xcb xine xml xorg xosd xrandr xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel usb-audio" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="multi asym rate dmix dshare dsnoop softvol plug extplug ioplug hooks empty route file" 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" CAMERAS="ptp2" 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="mouse keyboard evdev joystick" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en he es" LIRC_DEVICES="serial sir dev atiusb" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa v4l radeon r600 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, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS emerge -ptv vmware-modules vmware-player 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[ebuild R ] app-emulation/vmware-modules-238.3-r8 0 kB [ebuild Rf ] app-emulation/vmware-player-3.1.3.324285 USE="vmware-tools -doc" 0 kB Total: 2 packages (2 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 0 kB Fetch Restriction: 1 package
Created attachment 267871 [details] .config
Created attachment 267873 [details] crash log
Are you allocating more memory to the virtual machine than the host machine has free? That will easily cause an OOM condition, which is to be expected. I don't see a kernel panic in your log, only an OOM kill.
(In reply to comment #3) > Are you allocating more memory to the virtual machine than the host machine has > free? That will easily cause an OOM condition, which is to be expected. > well, intentionally no, I haven't configure it anywhere nor I know where to configure it. I'm currently use 2.6.38 and it works ok, when I switch to 2.6.38-r1, this happens, thus I assume it has something to do with the delta of these too releases. I'll try reemerging the kernel and test again. > I don't see a kernel panic in your log, only an OOM kill. mmmm right, I've assumed it is a panic because of the auto reboot it generates.
Created attachment 268617 [details] log crash still occurring, system gets reboot after that.
(In reply to comment #5) > Created attachment 268617 [details] > log crash > > still occurring, system gets reboot after that. Please provide meminfo: cat /proc/meminfo cat /VMWARESTORAGE/VMNAME/VMNAME.vmx | grep mem
