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VMWARE Server 2 and Red Hat 5.4 ES Web Interface Crashes posted: Sep 11, 2009 2:08 AM

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ryzman
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Sep 10, 2009
I have been using VMWare Server 2.0.1 fine for several months until I rebooted my server into a new Kernel.

Although the modules all start up OK in the terminal window the web interface seems to crash after being up for only a few seconds - sometimes barely enough to log in.

Any ideas?

My hardware is Dell R900 - 4 quad core intel CPU with 128Gb of ram

My OS is Red Hat Linux ES kernel version 2.6.18-128.2.1.el5

Thanks

Re: VMWARE Server 2 and Red Hat 5.4 ES Web Interface Crashes

1. Sep 11, 2009 8:05 AM in response to: ryzman
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ryzman
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Sep 10, 2009
I have just found this error /var/log/vmware/webAccess/proxy.log:

2009-09-11 15:59:06,895,http-8308-2<=>,RequestProcessor Error processing action request /view/createAndQuery : ServiceNotAvailableException java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused

Still no idea why though....

Re: VMWARE Server 2 and Red Hat 5.4 ES Web Interface Crashes

2. Sep 11, 2009 9:10 AM in response to: ryzman
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chrismayfield
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Sep 11, 2009

I ran into the same issue last week. Here is the background I have and fix that got me backup for now.

It seems that vmware provides their own libraries for some of what they need and there may be a bad interaction between that and the updated RHEL 5.4 libs.

The FIX:

yum downgrade glibc glibc-common

It will remove/revert about 22 Packages/Dependencies. I then rebooted and re-ran vmware-config and every thing functions again. Note you need to change your yum update config so that it doesnt push down the newer glibc glibc-common until this issue gets official resolved.

Re: VMWARE Server 2 and Red Hat 5.4 ES Web Interface Crashes

3. Sep 11, 2009 9:16 AM in response to: ryzman
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sigpedag
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Sep 9, 2009

Hi,

I have the exact same problem, I tried booting RHEL 5.4 on the old RHEL 5.3 kernel (2.6.18-128.7.1.el5), I tried compiling the modules instead of using the pre-existing ones. It fails every times.

It's the "vmware-hostd" process that fails, what you can do is to lauch it in a console with "vmware-hostd /etc/vmware/hostd/config.xml" and you will see the logs. That's more handy than trying to monitor the log file as far as it changes everytimes, "/var/log/vmware/hostd.log" being a symbolic link to a /var/log/vmware/hostd-*.log file.

I have restored Red Hat 5.3 and it works fine. I'm using VMware Server 2.0.1 on a Dell PowerEdge M600 blade server with RHEL 5.3 64bits.

I hope this will be resolved in Vmware 2.0.2...

Regards,

Re: VMWARE Server 2 and Red Hat 5.4 ES Web Interface Crashes

4. Sep 11, 2009 9:22 AM in response to: sigpedag
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chrismayfield
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Sep 11, 2009
Note i was able to stay at RHEL 5.4 with the newer kernel 2.6.18-164.el5

The FIX for me was to:


yum downgrade glibc glibc-common

It will remove/revert about 22 Packages/Dependencies; for me this was OK to downgrade glibc since i only run VMware on the systems. I then rebooted
and re-ran vmware-config and every thing functions again. Note you need
to change your yum update config so that it doesnt push down the newer
glibc glibc-common until this issue gets official resolved.

Re: VMWARE Server 2 and Red Hat 5.4 ES Web Interface Crashes

5. Sep 11, 2009 3:36 PM in response to: chrismayfield
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sigpedag
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Sep 9, 2009

Thanks.

Quick question : instead of downgrading GLIBC from RHEL 5.4, is it possible to blackist it before upgrading from RHEL 5.3 to 5.4?

And is the "downgrade" option of "yum" only available in 5.4? Because yum doesn't know this option on RHEL 5.3...

Regards,

Re: VMWARE Server 2 and Red Hat 5.4 ES Web Interface Crashes

6. Sep 14, 2009 2:44 AM in response to: sigpedag
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sigpedag
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Sep 9, 2009

Reply to myself :

- To avoid glic to be updated when upgrading from RHEL 5.3 to 5.4, simply add "exclude=glibc glibc-common glibc-devel glibc-headers nscd" to the /etc/yum.conf

- The "downgrade" option of yum is not present in RHEL 5.3

Thanks Chris for the tip, it works great for me.

Re: VMWARE Server 2 and Red Hat 5.4 ES Web Interface Crashes

7. Oct 30, 2009 3:17 PM in response to: sigpedag
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fsgiudice
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Feb 20, 2007
Hi All,

just to save time I have followed another way to downgrade from 5.4 to 5.3 glibc instead to reinstall all 5.3:

in /etc/yum.repos.d
I have copied CentOS-Base.repo to CentOS53-Base.repo
inside I have replaced "$releasever" string with "5.3"
and added "53" string to all repository name in [] (i.e. [base] => [base53])
after this I have done
yum downgrade glibc glibc-common
and then added in yum.conf

exclude=glibc glibc-common glibc-devel glibc-headers nscd

HTH

Best Regards
Francesco

Re: VMWARE Server 2 and Red Hat 5.4 ES Web Interface Crashes

8. Oct 31, 2009 9:07 AM in response to: ryzman
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sigpedag
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Sep 9, 2009

Is the 2.0.2 version of VMware Server solving the problem?

Regards,

Nicolas

Re: VMWARE Server 2 and Red Hat 5.4 ES Web Interface Crashes

9. Nov 1, 2009 1:17 AM in response to: sigpedag
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fsgiudice
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Feb 20, 2007
No

Francesco

Re: VMWARE Server 2 and Red Hat 5.4 ES Web Interface Crashes

10. Nov 1, 2009 9:49 AM in response to: fsgiudice
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starheart
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Mar 7, 2007
I am really getting disappointed with VMware. This issue has been around since mid-September, and it is now November 1st. A month and half to fix a minor issue and release a new version for something that completely breaks the product?

Re: VMWARE Server 2 and Red Hat 5.4 ES Web Interface Crashes

11. Nov 1, 2009 9:56 AM in response to: starheart
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starheart
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Mar 7, 2007

I just used the downgrade method. It required more fussing with. Below is a yum command and a yum exclude line that I think will be successful for others, after making the changes to a copy of CentOS-Base.repo.

yum downgrade glibc\* nscd gcc gcc-c++ cpp libstdc++\* nss_ldap

exclude=glibc* nscd gcc gcc-c++ cpp libstdc++* nss_ldap


Re: VMWARE Server 2 and Red Hat 5.4 ES Web Interface Crashes

12. Nov 5, 2009 3:05 PM in response to: starheart
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AppelonD
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Aug 29, 2009
Hi Starheart

I just wanted to tell you that I'm to getting more and more disappointed in VMware, a problem like this should be fixed right away, after all I think VMware are in debt to Red Hat... I still remember the first ESX 2.5 hosted I ever installed, with the Red Hat 3 Linux setting on top of there big success...

Get things straight... Stop testing everything on Ubuntu, and use a real Server platform... Then you will catch all this small ignoring bugs, and maybe gain the trust of you faithful users... though the early years back...

The only thing holding me back from switching to KVM is my damm old CPU there not support VT-T...

Sorry for the tone, I just find a discovery like this glibc thing rather offensive.... CentOS 5,4 is a Enterprise Linux just like RHEL is....

Re: VMWARE Server 2 and Red Hat 5.4 ES Web Interface Crashes

13. Nov 5, 2009 11:57 PM in response to: AppelonD
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Re: VMWARE Server 2 and Red Hat 5.4 ES Web Interface Crashes

14. Nov 5, 2009 3:31 PM in response to: AppelonD
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starheart
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Mar 7, 2007
I have been really disappointed with VMware lately. There is this issue, Infrastructure Client doesn't work without hacks on Windows 7, and VMware Workstation 7 doesn't work on Fedora 12 Beta(probably won't work on Fedora 12 unless VMware releases a fix in the next two weeks). Even before this issue I had been having regular crashes of the web interface. In general VMware doesn't seem to be keeping up with things. It does have me looking at alternatives.
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