VMware Communities: Message List - 6.5 segfault in F10-beta

Re: 6.5 segfault in F10-beta

tstuser1 — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:32:33 GMT

I have openSUSE 11.1 (x86_64) with kernel 2.6.27.29-0.1-default
and VMware-Workstation-for-Linux-64bit-6.5.1-126130.x86_64[1]

My computer freezes reproducible after starting the vmware services.
I have tried all the workarounds in this thread.
I have seen a lot of serious warnings during the compilation
process of the vmware kernel modules!

Can anybody help me?

Has the vmware developer stuff already fixed the problem?

Details:

uname -a

Linux erde001 2.6.27.29-0.1-default #1 SMP 2009-08-15 17:53:59 +0200 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Re: 6.5 segfault in F10-beta

kampanesar — Thu, 14 May 2009 08:10:38 GMT

This works for me. Thanks.

Re: 6.5 segfault in F10-beta

oaof — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:21:14 GMT

Thanks

Re: 6.5 segfault in F10-beta

Noel — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 04:02:36 GMT

oaof wrote:
I was wondering if you knew how to map eth1 to vmnet0, and eth2 to vmnet2?

vmware-netcfg

Re: 6.5 segfault in F10-beta

oaof — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:56:30 GMT

Hello Noel,

I noticed that you helped some people here on the forum with problems related to the missing "vmware-config.pl" script.

I was wondering if you knew how to map eth1 to vmnet0, and eth2 to vmnet2? I have a system with three ethernet cards (eth0, eth1, eth2) and need to split the traffic. In the past with vmplayer 2.0 I used to run "vmware-config.pl, which allowed me to configure both cards, but I don't know how to do it without the script.

Any ideas?

Thanks Omar

Re: 6.5 segfault in F10-beta

lreed22 — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:20:00 GMT

Thank you for the fix Noel, it worked great for openSuse 11.1, WS 6.5.1

Re: 6.5 segfault in F10-beta

dledwith — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 17:02:54 GMT

Thank you so much Charlie. I can't believe the fix was SOO easy. I just needed someone like you to confirm what I needed to do. Happy New Year to you and everyone one else reading this thread.

Danny

Re: 6.5 segfault in F10-beta

CharlieM — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:45:18 GMT

dledwith wrote:I'm having a problem installing workstation in openSUSE 11.1 kernel 2.6.27.7-9-default. I am running the 64 bit version of suse. I'm a linux beginner so I'm not sure if I applied the fix properly or not. I downloaded the vmware-build-modules script to my desktop and viewed it in gedit but I don't know how to run it. Thank you in advance for any help I can get on this forum. Below is what I see when I run vmware & command after installing the .rpm.
I also uninstalled the .rpm and installed with the .bundle but got the same result. I went back and made sure I had the following software installed also per a forum post.
Danny@linux-fpx7:~> vmware &
[1] 11983
Danny@linux-fpx7:~> Logging to /tmp/vmware-Danny/setup-11988.log
modinfo: could not find module vmmon
modinfo: could not find module vmnet
modinfo: could not find module vmblock
modinfo: could not find module vmci
modinfo: could not find module vsock
modinfo: could not find module vmmon
modinfo: could not find module vmnet
modinfo: could not find module vmblock
modinfo: could not find module vmci
modinfo: could not find module vsock

I didn't have to run the script you mentioned (Fedora 10 x86_64), but I did have to use the workaround posted earlier in this thread:

mv /usr/lib/vmware/modules/binary /usr/lib/vmware/modules/binary.old

If you do want to run that script you downloaded, you must first make it executable by typing "chmod +x vmware-build-modules" and then execute it by typing "./vmware-build-modules". But I would try the renaming first, as it's less complicated and (if it works) will let you use the new automatic module building system in vmware.

To do either of these, you will have to have root privs.

Re: 6.5 segfault in F10-beta

dledwith — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:31:23 GMT

I'm having a problem installing workstation in openSUSE 11.1 kernel 2.6.27.7-9-default. I am running the 64 bit version of suse. I'm a linux beginner so I'm not sure if I applied the fix properly or not. I downloaded the vmware-build-modules script to my desktop and viewed it in gedit but I don't know how to run it. Thank you in advance for any help I can get on this forum. Below is what I see when I run vmware & command after installing the .rpm.

I also uninstalled the .rpm and installed with the .bundle but got the same result. I went back and made sure I had the following software installed also per a forum post.

gcc

gcc++

make

binutils

kernel-source

Danny@linux-fpx7:~> vmware &
[1] 11983
Danny@linux-fpx7:~> Logging to /tmp/vmware-Danny/setup-11988.log
modinfo: could not find module vmmon
modinfo: could not find module vmnet
modinfo: could not find module vmblock
modinfo: could not find module vmci
modinfo: could not find module vsock
modinfo: could not find module vmmon
modinfo: could not find module vmnet
modinfo: could not find module vmblock
modinfo: could not find module vmci
modinfo: could not find module vsock

Re: 6.5 segfault in F10-beta

davidbailey — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:51:16 GMT

Just a heads up. I experienced this same problem in openSUSE 11.1 RC2 kernel Linux 2.6.27.7-8-default #1 SMP 2008-11-25 00:02:37 +0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux.

Thanks for the solution.

Re: 6.5 segfault in F10-beta

NLSurfMan — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:08:05 GMT

I solved my issue... Turns out I didn't have kernel-devel installed.

And the script works beautiful!

Re: 6.5 segfault in F10-beta

smpouh — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 16:46:06 GMT

Noel,

Many thanks for the script. It works wonderfully.

Cheers,
smpouh

Re: 6.5 segfault in F10-beta

NLSurfMan — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:55:20 GMT

I have tried to run the script vmware-build-modules, but this is the output. Not surprisingly, VMWare Workstation still doesn't start, but bombs out withthe following message:

+Nov 28 10:40:29 localhost kernel: vmware-modconfi10637: segfault at 0 ip 0000003fa7681d64 sp 00007fff7d81af00 error 4 in libc-2.9.so3fa7600000+168000+

Obviously, I am not a Linux guru (yet , but still I would like to get VMWare to work on my Fedora 10 box. Attached is the output of that script.

Versin info: Linux PCWJ 2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Nov 18 11:58:53 EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Re: 6.5 segfault in F10-beta

jimlucas — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:31:14 GMT

Noel,

Thank you for the script. That appears to have done the trick.

Re: 6.5 segfault in F10-beta

Noel — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:50:06 GMT

jaycamp wrote:
We've had a developer hit this internally as well so hopefully we'll be able to track it down. In the meantime you can write a fairly simple shell script to install the kernel modules. Just untar all the modules in /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source, run make and then copy the module to /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc, run depmod -a, and run /etc/init.d/vmware restart.

While VMware works on putting out a fixed version of Workstation, attached is the script I use for Fedora 10 whenever a new kernel is released. WARNING: you're on your own. No warranty or support, even if you erase your entire hard drive.

Re: 6.5 segfault in F10-beta

mulicheng — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:49:57 GMT

After searching around a bit, I found that starting haldaemon fixes the filter problem.

/etc/init.d/haldaemon start

Re: 6.5 segfault in F10-beta

mulicheng — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:33:05 GMT

I can build the modules manually (except vmppuser as noted before w/ -m486) and install them. The vmware service reports success on loading them all:

Starting VMware services:

Virtual machine monitor	[ OK ]
Virtual machine communication interface	[ OK ]
Blocking file system	[ OK ]
Virtual ethernet	[ OK ]
Shared Memory Available	[ OK ]

When I try to run vmware or vmplayer, I get:

<output snipped>
vermagic: 2.6.27.4-58.fc10.x86_64 SMP mod_unload
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.27.4-58.fc10.x86_64/misc/vmmon.ko
license: GPL v2
description: VMware Virtual Machine Monitor.
author: VMware, Inc.
srcversion: 96CBF0250D0FB3F01BFBFFC
depends:
vermagic: 2.6.27.4-58.fc10.x86_64 SMP mod_unload
process 6566: Attempt to remove filter function 0x7f7245a36c40 user data 0x183e6a0, but no such filter has been added

I previously moved the binary modules directory but that didn't help.

I've tried this with 2.6.27.4-47.rc3 as well as 2.6.27.4-58

Re: 6.5 segfault in F10-beta

gjmoed — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 11:22:20 GMT

Guys, same problem here with rawhide, put a strace on it, it bombs out on enumerating binary modules dir, so I did:

mv /usr/lib/vmware/modules/binary /usr/lib/vmware/modules/binary.old

And voila, no more segfaults...

Re: 6.5 segfault in F10-beta

zenocolo — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:35:36 GMT

chef, many thanks, this solved it... i copyed the wrong files over

Re: 6.5 segfault in F10-beta

jaycamp — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:29:10 GMT

They probably need to be named *.ko instead of *.o.

Re: 6.5 segfault in F10-beta

zenocolo — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:23:09 GMT

Guys, you are to fast for me, I have same problem f10 beta/ vm 6.5:

Here what I did:

untared archives

run make in each dir

then:

~~root@svdude source~~# ls
vmblock.o vmci.o vmmon.o vmnet.o vmppuser-only vsock-only
vmblock-only vmci-only vmmon-only vmnet-only vmppuser.tar vsock.tar
vmblock.tar vmci.tar vmmon.tar vmnet.tar vsock.o
~~root@svdude source~~# cp *.o /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc
~~root@svdude source~~# depmod -a
~~root@svdude source~~# /etc/init.d/vmware restart.
Usage: vmware {start|stop|status|restart|stoppable}
~~root@svdude source~~# /etc/init.d/vmware restart
Stopping VMware services:
Virtual machine communication interface OK
Virtual machine monitor OK
Blocking file system OK
Starting VMware services:
Virtual machine monitor FAILED
Virtual machine communication interface FAILED
Blocking file system FAILED
Virtual ethernet FAILED
~~root@svdude source~~# vmware
Logging to /tmp/vmware-root/setup-21851.log
modinfo: could not find module vmmon
modinfo: could not find module vmnet
modinfo: could not find module vmblock
modinfo: could not find module vmci
modinfo: could not find module vsock
modinfo: could not find module vmmon
modinfo: could not find module vmnet
modinfo: could not find module vmblock
modinfo: could not find module vmci
modinfo: could not find module vsock
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/launcher.sh: line 231: 21851 Segmentation fault "$binary" "$@"

Any advice?

tnx in advance

Re: 6.5 segfault in F10-beta

DidierM — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:58:12 GMT

Thanks Jay, manually compiling the modules - as an interim solution - seems to work fine.

Some minor nuisances :

1.

$ make
cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-m486"
make: *** http://ppuser-stub.o Error 1

2.

service vmware start

Starting VMware services:
Virtual machine monitor OK
Virtual machine communication interface OK
Blocking file system OK
Virtual ethernet FAILED

dmesg :

/dev/vmmon27599: Module vmmon: registered with major=10 minor=165
/dev/vmmon27599: Initial HV check: anyNotCapable=0 anyUnlocked=0 anyEnabled=0 anyDisabled=1
/dev/vmmon27599: HV check: anyNotCapable=0 anyUnlocked=0 anyEnabled=0 anyDisabled=1
/dev/vmmon27599: Module vmmon: initialized
/dev/vmci27612: VMCI: Driver initialized.
/dev/vmci27612: Module vmci: registered with major=10 minor=59
/dev/vmci27612: Module vmci: initialized
SELinux: initialized (dev vmblock, type vmblock), uses genfs_contexts
/dev/vmnet: open called by PID 27673 (vmnet-bridge)
/dev/vmnet: hub 0 does not exist, allocating memory.
/dev/vmnet: port on hub 0 successfully opened
bridge-wlan0: is a Wireless Adapter
bridge-wlan0: up
bridge-wlan0: attached
/dev/vmnet: open called by PID 28222 (vmnet-dhcpd)
/dev/vmnet: hub 8 does not exist, allocating memory.
/dev/vmnet: port on hub 8 successfully opened
/dev/vmnet: open called by PID 28226 (vmnet-natd)
/dev/vmnet: port on hub 8 successfully opened
/dev/vmnet: open called by PID 28230 (vmnet-netifup)
/dev/vmnet: port on hub 8 successfully opened
vmnet8: no IPv6 routers present

(but networking works fine)

Regards and thanks again,
Didier

Re: 6.5 segfault in F10-beta

jaycamp — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:22:09 GMT

We've had a developer hit this internally as well so hopefully we'll be able to track it down. In the meantime you can write a fairly simple shell script to install the kernel modules. Just untar all the modules in /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source, run make and then copy the module to /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc, run depmod -a, and run /etc/init.d/vmware restart.

-jay

Re: 6.5 segfault in F10-beta

mulicheng — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:41:15 GMT

Having the same issue. Can't build the kernel modules in fc10-beta.

6.5 segfault in F10-beta

DidierM — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:02:18 GMT

Running Fedora 10 Beta (kernel 2.6.27-0.370.rc8 , glibc-2.8.90-12) :

vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

results in :

/usr/lib/vmware/bin/launcher.sh: line 231: 11405 Segmentation fault "$binary" "$@"

dmesg reveals :

vmware-modconfi11405: segfault at 0 ip 000000321bc83b94 sp 00007fff532a2eb0 error 4 in libc-2.8.90.so321bc00000+16c000

Has anyone successfully patched 6.0.5 to run with 2.6.27 ?

Best regards,

Didier