Bug 467944 – app-emulation/open-vm-tools-2012.12.26.958366 with kernel 3.7.10-r1 - modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'vmblock': Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter [dmesg: vmblock: Unknown symbol putname (err 0)]

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description tazinblack 2013-04-30 06:13:17 UTC]

Build of kernel modules look good, but if you want to start the open-vm-tools you get an error



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. build kmod against kernel
2. restart open-vm-tools
3.
Actual Results:  
/etc/init.d/vmware-tools restart
 * Cleaning the contents of /tmp/VMwareDnD ...                                                                                                                           [ ok ]
 * Unmounting vmblock device ...                                                                                                                                         [ ok ]
 * Stopping vmtoolsd ...                                                                                                                                                 [ ok ]
 * Loading vmblock module ...
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'vmblock': Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)                                                                  [ !! ]
 * Mounting vmblock device ...
mount: mount point /proc/fs/vmblock/mountPoint does not exist                                                                                                            [ !! ]
 * Starting vmtoolsd ...


gentoo-sources 3.7.10-r1
gcc x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-4.6.3
profile hardened/linux/amd64

[Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2013-05-01 00:14:22 UTC]

1) What does dmesg say?
2) Please post your `emerge --info' output in a comment.

[Comment 2 tazinblack 2013-05-02 07:47:45 UTC]

dmesg says :

[ 3071.019300] vmalloc: allocation failure: 0 bytes
[ 3071.019304] modprobe: page allocation failure: order:0, mode:0xd2
[ 3071.019308] Pid: 8062, comm: modprobe Tainted: G           O 3.7.10-gentoo-r1 #1
[ 3071.019309] Call Trace:
[ 3071.019313]  [<ffffffff810908ae>] 0xffffffff810908ae
[ 3071.019316]  [<ffffffff81066b0e>] ? 0xffffffff81066b0e
[ 3071.019317]  [<ffffffff810aee75>] 0xffffffff810aee75
[ 3071.019318]  [<ffffffff81066b0e>] ? 0xffffffff81066b0e
[ 3071.019320]  [<ffffffff8102043d>] 0xffffffff8102043d
[ 3071.019321]  [<ffffffff81066b0e>] ? 0xffffffff81066b0e
[ 3071.019323]  [<ffffffff81066b0e>] 0xffffffff81066b0e
[ 3071.019324]  [<ffffffff81067305>] 0xffffffff81067305
[ 3071.019326]  [<ffffffff81067ebf>] 0xffffffff81067ebf
[ 3071.019328]  [<ffffffff81472952>] 0xffffffff81472952
[ 3071.019329] Mem-Info:
[ 3071.019330] DMA per-cpu:
[ 3071.019332] CPU    0: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
[ 3071.019333] CPU    1: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
[ 3071.019334] DMA32 per-cpu:
[ 3071.019335] CPU    0: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd: 121
[ 3071.019336] CPU    1: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd: 144
[ 3071.019342] active_anon:1619 inactive_anon:115 isolated_anon:0
 active_file:3928 inactive_file:5135 isolated_file:0
 unevictable:0 dirty:2 writeback:0 unstable:0
 free:234536 slab_reclaimable:3918 slab_unreclaimable:2077
 mapped:1389 shmem:132 pagetables:306 bounce:0
 free_cma:0
[ 3071.019349] DMA free:15908kB min:60kB low:72kB high:88kB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB present:15684kB mlocked:0kB dirty:0kB writeback:0kB mapped:0kB shmem:0kB slab_reclaimable:0kB slab_unreclaimable:0kB kernel_stack:0kB pagetables:0kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB free_cma:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
[ 3071.019351] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 994 994 994
[ 3071.019360] DMA32 free:922236kB min:4000kB low:5000kB high:6000kB active_anon:6476kB inactive_anon:460kB active_file:15712kB inactive_file:20540kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB present:1018016kB mlocked:0kB dirty:8kB writeback:0kB mapped:5556kB shmem:528kB slab_reclaimable:15672kB slab_unreclaimable:8308kB kernel_stack:608kB pagetables:1224kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB free_cma:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
[ 3071.019361] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0
[ 3071.019364] DMA: 1*4kB 0*8kB 0*16kB 1*32kB 2*64kB 1*128kB 1*256kB 0*512kB 1*1024kB 1*2048kB 3*4096kB = 15908kB
[ 3071.019371] DMA32: 135*4kB 205*8kB 29*16kB 3*32kB 1*64kB 1*128kB 5*256kB 9*512kB 4*1024kB 2*2048kB 221*4096kB = 922228kB
[ 3071.019379] 9197 total pagecache pages
[ 3071.019380] 0 pages in swap cache
[ 3071.019381] Swap cache stats: add 0, delete 0, find 0/0
[ 3071.019382] Free swap  = 1004056kB
[ 3071.019383] Total swap = 1004056kB
[ 3071.025715] 262128 pages RAM
[ 3071.025717] 5897 pages reserved
[ 3071.025717] 271159 pages shared
[ 3071.025718] 16906 pages non-shared
[ 3071.025889] vmblock: Unknown symbol putname (err 0)

[Comment 3 tazinblack 2013-05-02 07:48:35 UTC]

emerge --info
Portage 2.1.11.62 (hardened/linux/amd64, gcc-4.6.3, glibc-2.15-r3, 3.7.10-gentoo-r1 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-3.7.10-gentoo-r1-x86_64-Intel-R-_Xeon-R-_CPU_E7-_4830_@_2.13GHz-with-gentoo-2.2
KiB Mem:     1025180 total,    877940 free
KiB Swap:    1004056 total,   1004056 free
Timestamp of tree: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 07:00:01 +0000
ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.22
app-shells/bash:          4.2_p37
dev-java/java-config:     2.1.12-r1
dev-lang/python:          2.7.3-r3, 3.2.3-r2
dev-util/cmake:           2.8.10.2-r2
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.28
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.2
sys-apps/openrc:          0.11.8
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.5
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.69
sys-devel/automake:       1.11.6, 1.12.6
sys-devel/binutils:       2.22-r1
sys-devel/gcc:            4.4.6-r1, 4.5.3-r2, 4.6.3
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.7.3
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4-r1
sys-devel/make:           3.82-r4
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.7 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.15-r3
Repositories: gentoo
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch xattr"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LANG="de_DE.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="acl amd64 apache2 berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cxx dri gdbm gpm hardened iconv justify mmx modules mudflap multilib ncurses nls no-seamonkey nptl openmp openssl pam pax_kernel pcre readline samba session sse sse2 ssl swat tcpd threads unicode urandom zlib" ABI_X86="64" 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="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd 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" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" 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="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="de en" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 ruby19" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint intel mach64 mga nouveau nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa via vmware dummy v4l" 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, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON

[Comment 4 tazinblack 2013-05-02 07:49:54 UTC]

I have the same on serveral different VMs.
Not only on this machine.

Thank you for your work here!

[Comment 5 Nathan 2013-05-23 16:15:12 UTC]

I have been getting this same error, vmware workstation 8.  I get this whether I use vmware-modules, vmware-tools from vmware, or in this case open-vm-tools-kmod.  I tried a patch out there called 264-putname.patch and 271-putname.patch but they did not resolve.

emerge --info
Portage 2.1.11.62 (default/linux/amd64/13.0, gcc-4.5.3, glibc-2.15-r3, 3.7.10-gentoo-r1 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-3.7.10-gentoo-r1-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7_CPU_860_@_2.80GHz-with-gentoo-2.2
KiB Mem:     2050412 total,    428420 free
KiB Swap:    3145724 total,   3141084 free
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 22 May 2013 17:30:01 +0000
ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.22
app-shells/bash:          4.2_p45
dev-lang/python:          2.7.3-r3, 3.1.4-r3, 3.2.3-r2
dev-util/cmake:           2.8.10.2-r2
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.2
sys-apps/openrc:          0.11.8
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.5
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13, 2.69
sys-devel/automake:       1.11.6, 1.12.6
sys-devel/binutils:       2.22-r1
sys-devel/gcc:            4.5.3-r1, 4.6.3
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.7.3
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4-r1
sys-devel/make:           3.82-r4
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.7 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.15-r3
Repositories: gentoo
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/polkit-1/actions"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"                                                                
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
USE="X acl alsa amd64 apng berkdb bzip2 cairo cdda cli consolekit cracklib cron crypt cups cxx dbus declarative dri extensions extras fbcon fbcondecor fontconfig fortran gdbm gdu gif gpm gtk gudev hwdb iconv icu ipv6 jpeg kde libkms lm_sensors mmx mng modules mudflap multilib mysql ncurses nls nptl ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png policykit python qt3support qt4 readline script session sql sqlite sse sse2 sse3 ssh ssl ssse3 static-libs svg tcpd tcpdump truetype udev unicode vim vim-syntax vmware-tools vorbis webkit xa zlib" ABI_X86="64" 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="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd 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" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" 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="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 ruby19" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vmware vmmmouse" 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, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON    


Contenets of 264-putname.patch that does not work...
diff --git a/vmblock-only/linux/control.c b/vmblock-only/linux/control.c
index 79716bd..2dd83fe 100644
--- a/vmblock-only/linux/control.c
+++ b/vmblock-only/linux/control.c
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ ExecuteBlockOp(const char __user *buf,                // IN: buffer with name
 
    retval = i < 0 ? -EINVAL : blockOp(name, blocker);
 
-   putname(name);
+   __putname(name);
 
    return retval;
 }

[Comment 6 MarcusX 2013-06-01 21:20:01 UTC]

Same problem here, on all my Gentoo VMs...
however it seems to exist a fix for this issue already:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/33835

can we have this patch integrated in a new build for open-vm-tools or something like that? It would be much easier to update all Gentoo machines having this problem, than installing patches manually on each machine.

[Comment 7 tazinblack 2013-06-06 09:08:03 UTC]

Against latest kernel 3.8.13 the open-vm-tools can't even be build:



 * Preparing vmci module
make -j5 HOSTCC=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc CROSS_COMPILE=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu- 'LDFLAGS=-m elf_x86_64' auto-build HEADER_DIR=/usr/src/linux/include BUILD_DIR=/lib/modules/3.8.13-gentoo/build OVT_SOURCE_DIR=/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/open-vm-tools-kmod-2012.12.26.958366/work/open-vm-tools-2012.12.26-958366 
Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make -C /lib/modules/3.8.13-gentoo/build SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. \
  MODULEBUILDDIR= modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-3.8.13-gentoo'
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/open-vm-tools-kmod-2012.12.26.958366/work/open-vm-tools-2012.12.26-958366/modules/linux/vmci/linux/driver.o
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/open-vm-tools-kmod-2012.12.26.958366/work/open-vm-tools-2012.12.26-958366/modules/linux/vmci/linux/vmciKernelIf.o
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/open-vm-tools-kmod-2012.12.26.958366/work/open-vm-tools-2012.12.26-958366/modules/linux/vmci/common/vmciDatagram.o
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/open-vm-tools-kmod-2012.12.26.958366/work/open-vm-tools-2012.12.26-958366/modules/linux/vmci/common/vmciResource.o
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/open-vm-tools-kmod-2012.12.26.958366/work/open-vm-tools-2012.12.26-958366/modules/linux/vmci/common/vmciDriver.o
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/open-vm-tools-kmod-2012.12.26.958366/work/open-vm-tools-2012.12.26-958366/modules/linux/vmci/common/vmciRoute.o
/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/open-vm-tools-kmod-2012.12.26.958366/work/open-vm-tools-2012.12.26-958366/modules/linux/vmci/linux/driver.c:131:4: error: implicit declaration of function '__devexit_p' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/open-vm-tools-kmod-2012.12.26.958366/work/open-vm-tools-2012.12.26-958366/modules/linux/vmci/linux/driver.c:131:4: error: initializer element is not constant
/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/open-vm-tools-kmod-2012.12.26.958366/work/open-vm-tools-2012.12.26-958366/modules/linux/vmci/linux/driver.c:131:4: error: (near initialization for 'vmci_driver.remove')
/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/open-vm-tools-kmod-2012.12.26.958366/work/open-vm-tools-2012.12.26-958366/modules/linux/vmci/linux/driver.c:1751:1: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'vmci_probe_device'
/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/open-vm-tools-kmod-2012.12.26.958366/work/open-vm-tools-2012.12.26-958366/modules/linux/vmci/linux/driver.c:1979:1: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'vmci_remove_device'
/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/open-vm-tools-kmod-2012.12.26.958366/work/open-vm-tools-2012.12.26-958366/modules/linux/vmci/linux/driver.c:123:12: warning: 'vmci_probe_device' used but never defined [enabled by default]
/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/open-vm-tools-kmod-2012.12.26.958366/work/open-vm-tools-2012.12.26-958366/modules/linux/vmci/linux/driver.c:125:13: warning: 'vmci_remove_device' used but never defined [enabled by default]
/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/open-vm-tools-kmod-2012.12.26.958366/work/open-vm-tools-2012.12.26-958366/modules/linux/vmci/linux/driver.c:2060:1: warning: 'vmci_interrupt' defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/open-vm-tools-kmod-2012.12.26.958366/work/open-vm-tools-2012.12.26-958366/modules/linux/vmci/linux/driver.c:2134:1: warning: 'vmci_interrupt_bm' defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/open-vm-tools-kmod-2012.12.26.958366/work/open-vm-tools-2012.12.26-958366/modules/linux/vmci/linux/driver.c:1714:1: warning: 'vmci_enable_msix' defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
make[2]: *** [/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/open-vm-tools-kmod-2012.12.26.958366/work/open-vm-tools-2012.12.26-958366/modules/linux/vmci/linux/driver.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[1]: *** [_module_/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/open-vm-tools-kmod-2012.12.26.958366/work/open-vm-tools-2012.12.26-958366/modules/linux/vmci] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-3.8.13-gentoo'
make: *** [vmci.ko] Error 2
 * ERROR: app-emulation/open-vm-tools-kmod-2012.12.26.958366 failed (compile phase):
 *   emake failed
 * 
 * If you need support, post the output of `emerge --info '=app-emulation/open-vm-tools-kmod-2012.12.26.958366'`,
 * the complete build log and the output of `emerge -pqv '=app-emulation/open-vm-tools-kmod-2012.12.26.958366'`.
 * The complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/open-vm-tools-kmod-2012.12.26.958366/temp/build.log'.
 * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/open-vm-tools-kmod-2012.12.26.958366/temp/environment'.
 * Working directory: '/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/open-vm-tools-kmod-2012.12.26.958366/work/open-vm-tools-2012.12.26-958366/modules/linux/vmci'
 * S: '/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/open-vm-tools-kmod-2012.12.26.958366/work/open-vm-tools-2012.12.26-958366'

And this is the only stable kernel left.

[Comment 8 William Cooke 2013-06-17 10:49:18 UTC]

You can find a working putname patch for open-vm-tools-kmod in but #460224 along with an updated ebuild to use it.

[Comment 9 Andreas K. Hüttel 2013-06-23 13:48:07 UTC]

Should be fixed by open-vm-tools-kmod-2013.04.16.1098359 , please reopen if there are still problems.