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

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:

Re: 6.5 segfault in F10-beta# 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

Re: 6.5 segfault in F10-beta# cp *.o /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc

Re: 6.5 segfault in F10-beta# depmod -a

Re: 6.5 segfault in F10-beta# /etc/init.d/vmware restart.

Usage: vmware {start|stop|status|restart|stoppable}

Re: 6.5 segfault in F10-beta# /etc/init.d/vmware restart

Stopping VMware services:

   Virtual machine communication interface                 Re: 6.5 segfault in F10-beta

   Virtual machine monitor                                 Re: 6.5 segfault in F10-beta

   Blocking file system                                    Re: 6.5 segfault in F10-beta

Starting VMware services:

   Virtual machine monitor                                 Re: 6.5 segfault in F10-beta

   Virtual machine communication interface                 Re: 6.5 segfault in F10-beta

   Blocking file system                                    Re: 6.5 segfault in F10-beta

   Virtual ethernet                                        Re: 6.5 segfault in F10-beta

Re: 6.5 segfault in F10-beta# 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

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

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:

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

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

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.

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-modconfi[10637]: segfault at 0 ip 0000003fa7681d64 sp 00007fff7d81af00 error 4 in libc-2.9.so[3fa7600000168000]+

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

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

And the script works beautiful!