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Web Management Console: Login Attempts Timeout, proxy log shows exceptions posted: Nov 5, 2009 11:38 AM

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Anthony.Neal
6 posts since
Dec 20, 2007
Hi everyone,

My host is a Fedora Core 11 quad-core with 8G RAM running kernel 2.6.30.9-90.fc11.x86_64. I'm attempting to run VMWare Server 2.0.1 (with the vmware-server-modules-2629tar.gz patch).

Web Browser is on Fedora as well, Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091027 Fedora/3.5.4-1.fc11 Firefox/3.5.4, accessing through URL http://localhost:8222


I will not lie, getting to this point has been a rough road.

VMWare is built, starts up, shuts down, starts again... logs look fine AFAIK. However it is hard to tell just how good things are when you can not log into the Web Management Console. Put in my root user and password and get this messae after it spins for a while.

The server is not responding. Please check that the server is running and accepting connections.
Heh. Well, I'd love to. Checking the /var/log/vmware/webAccess/proxy.log file (the only log file with anything in it under webAccess), I see a lot of this:

2009-11-05 13:01:58,125,http-8308-1<=>,RequestProcessor Error processing action request /action/login : AxisFault ; nested exception is:
java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
2009-11-05 13:04:47,572,http-8308-2<=>,RequestProcessor Error processing action request /action/login : AxisFault ; nested exception is:
java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
2009-11-05 14:50:20,426,http-8308-1<=>,RequestProcessor Error processing action request /action/login : AxisFault ; nested exception is:
java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
2009-11-05 14:51:28,440,http-8308-2<=>,RequestProcessor Error processing action request /action/login : AxisFault ; nested exception is:
java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
2009-11-05 14:55:50,152,http-8308-3<=>,RequestProcessor Error processing action request /action/login : AxisFault ; nested exception is:
java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
2009-11-05 15:03:39,921,http-8308-4<=>,RequestProcessor Error processing action request /action/login : AxisFault ; nested exception is:
java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
I've checked the main VMWare logs and nothing looks out of order (a few warnings, but nothing that looks pertinent, it's attached if you're interested).

Has anyone seen this or have words of wisdom ("use a supported host OS" does not help me, thank you)?

Thanks,
Anthony

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Tags: web_access, fedora, server_2, linux, webaccess

Re: Web Management Console: Login Attempts Timeout, proxy log shows exceptions

1. Nov 5, 2009 8:04 PM in response to: Anthony.Neal
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Anthony.Neal
6 posts since
Dec 20, 2007

Yet more information...

I read in this post that some people found restarting the management services to help with their woes. For me, executing:

sudo /etc/init.d/vmware-mgmt restart

just hung. It's still hung. Think I'll go to bed and see if it's hung in the morning.

As usual, nothing interesting in the logs...


Re: Web Management Console: Login Attempts Timeout, proxy log shows exceptions

2. Nov 5, 2009 11:01 PM in response to: Anthony.Neal
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DerekShaw
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Oct 11, 2008
I have ubuntu 8.04 LTS desktop 64-bit running server 2.0.2, with the same results. Could not access the server from any PC on the LAN via firefox 3.5.3. used both IP and host names, http and https. I could access the server from the local host with the invocation http://localhost:8222/

I tried this (from http://blog.mymediasystem.net/uncategorized/vmware-server-2-0-1-installation-howto-for-karmic-koala-x86_64/)

Empty Browser Remote Console Problem

I noticed, that actually three different approaches (sometimes in combination) lead to a relief.

* Don't use hostnames, but IPs only in your browser. E.g: https://127.0.0.1:8333/ui instead of https://localhost:8333/ui
* Restart the vmware-hostd (your running VM's won't be affected <- bold statement, don't you think?).
** seemed to autostart a VM I had shutdown while experimenting. The server was configured to autostart this vm at server startup. I guess it's
really at vmware-mgmt startup that the vm's get started.

/etc/initd.d/vmware-mgmt restart

If the process number stays unchanged, and a log entry in /var/log/vmware/hostd-x.log indicates an already running vmware-hostd, kill the process manually, because it seams to hang:

killall -9 vmware-hostd
Remember to restart the vmware-mgmt task after killing it. The above worked for a virgin workstation.

At another workstation (where I had been doing some experimentation), I had to do this, as well

* Uninstall the VMware remote console Plug-in:
Menu: Tools -> Add-ons -> Extensions -> "VMware remote console Plug-in" -> Button:Uninstall

* Remove the VMware's SSL-Certificate:
Menu: Edit -> Preferences -> Section:Advanced -> Tab:Encryption -> Button:View Cerfiticates -> Tab:Authorities.

Scroll down, until VMware shows up. Select and delete all entries.

Re: Web Management Console: Login Attempts Timeout, proxy log shows exceptions

3. Nov 6, 2009 2:46 PM in response to: DerekShaw
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Anthony.Neal
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Dec 20, 2007

Hi Derek,

Thanks for your response!

I've dropped my firewall and tried to access the WMC from the localhost and from a machine on my network, same results for both. I get the login screen, type in my credentials and then wait for the inevitable timeout message. :(

I don't have any plugins or extensions on FireFox yet (the host machine is a brand new install).

I tried restarting the vmware-mgmt processes and they hang for a long time. It seems that hostd is hung, as you mentioned. I've killed it off and restarted it, brought back up the management services and still I get the same results trying to log in.

At this point, I'm thinking I may just revert back to my old server and give up on VMWare Server 2.0.1 - this is not worth the amount of time I've spent on this already.

One thing that is interesting is that they mention a different modules fix than I used (attached). Perhaps I'll give that a try before I bail on this.

-Anthony

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4. Nov 6, 2009 5:25 PM in response to: Anthony.Neal
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tstrike34
6 posts since
Nov 6, 2009

I have 5 VMware Workstation licenses that are up for renewal but all
these problems with VMware Server on open source Linux are now costing
in small business revenue.


I have tried both Server 2.0.1 and 2.0.2 on CentOS and Fedora.. both do
not work at ALL (I got embarassed on a demo) I have been lurking for
quite awhile and I really have to agree with folks...


What a piece of crap. With IBM backing KVM, I have successfully
converted half of my VMs to KVM/Qemu already.... This instability is
deadly...


I wonder if VMware got fat and lazy with profitability?

This is so awful...... my question is WHY????

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