Still not fixed is it?
Most of the times the login does not appear and sometimes the screen of a VM (Summary, etc) won't load also.

Except from the VMware Infrastructure Client is missing, I thought (correct me if I am wrong), it is not usable with VMware Server 2.x. Only VMware Remote Console is usable to view VMs, but configuring requires the webinterface.

I 'work around' this problem by holding ctrl + F5 in Firefox for some seconds until the login shows up.

I can just confirm that is a real big issue with this kind of error. I got 2 installations running Ubuntu Server 9.04 as hosts and both where showing this problem.

I corrected it by fix my hosts file that was broken since I moved the servers from the lab to another location. Before I have exactly the same error messages in my error console in FF.

Another issue is that Ubuntu can't handle the FF plugin for the console without crash the keyboard.

Please VMware, give us a real application for Linux that are working with all your products for adminstration of the servers. How can we test and validare the free software before we continue to the "real" stuff if this aint working? Make Vsphere client working in Linux and add support for all platforms in that client for both Windows and Linux

// rancor

I don't know what caused the original problem, but here's some information about getting the webAccess restarted after a failure. I was able to get things restarted without rebooting any virtual machines or the host machine. In my case, there was a broken version of the Tomcat web application server still running. I had to kill that and restart the vmware-mgmt service. Things started working again.

Specifically...

1) Try to stop the service through the service interface

service vmware-mgmt stop

2) Ensure that it terminated properly

ps -elf | grep catalina

3) If you see any Tomcat processes (they end in 'org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start', kill them using the 'kill -9 <pid>' where the <pid> is the 4th field in the ps -elf command. For us Unix geeks, the command is

ps -elf | grep catalina | grep -v grep | awk '{print $4}' | xargs kill -9

4) Restart the service via the service interface

service vmware-mgmt restart

Of course, that's not a solution, but it may help some of you get operational again without any reboots.

Another thread with the same issue:

no login-fields at web-service, just blank
http://communities.vmware.com/message/1422899

okay everyone...i think might have another possible, and hopefully permament, solution to this problem. i ran into this using firefox and IE on a brand new Windows 7 box, trying to connect to the web ui over ssl. tried all the usual (restarting vmware-mgmt, clearing cache, etc) to no availl. i got the same errors in firefox's error console about vmtn not being defined, etc. after poking around a bit i notied the errors i was seeing in the error console were changing every time i reloaded the page and it seemed like the js files weren't being parsed correctly. looking around online i ran across a thread where someone else noticed that some of the files don't seem to be decompressed reliably: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1160255

so, i figured, why not turn off compression in catalina? changed config, restart vmware-mgmt, login page works!

this is a simple change and easily reversible if anyone notices anything odd. to disable compression:

• edit tomcat's server.xml file (lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/conf/server.xml under where your vmware server filesets were installed).
• find the http/1.1 connector definition listening on port 8308 (begins on line 68 or so) and change compression="on" to compression="off"
• restart vmware-mgmt

the modified connector entry in my server.xml looks like this: the login page came up almost immediately for me afterwards, and hasn't broken sense.

give it a shot and good luck!

Axel, did you clear out your browser's cache after making the change? Its sounds simple, but you might still have a bad version of the javascript files in the cache that are getting in the way.

Webinterface on my debian lenny is also not avaible via :8222 (:8333). Nothing in this thread helps for me.
hostd.log shows
Additional that the hostd is not terminated throught init.d (very strange)

Found a workaround (but not secure ) here:http://communities.vmware.com/thread/119405
Connect to the :8308 works for me

Maybe it helps someone