VMWare Worstation Pro 15.5.5 installation fails on Debian stable

[richfield]

Hi All,

I successfully ran Workstation Pro from release 11 to recent 15.5.2 without major problems. Trying to run the upgrade to 15.5.5 today, I failed with...

~$ bash VMware-Workstation-Full-15.5.5-16285975.x86_64.bundle

Extracting VMware Installer...done.

/tmp/tmpyrjlvmmc.vmis.env:4: DeprecationWarning: the imp module is deprecated in favour of importlib; see the module's documentation for alternative uses

  import imp

/tmp/vmis.HsWQt2/install/vmware-installer/vmware-installer: Zeile 421:  4170 Speicherzugriffsfehler  LC_ALL="C" VMWARE_INSTALLER="$VMWARE_INSTALLER" VMISPYVERSION="$VMISPYVERSION" "$VMWARE_INSTALLER"/vmis-launcher "$VMWARE_INSTALLER"/vmware-installer.py "$@"

I have no idea what went wrong!? Please, any advice appreciated... presently I'm going back to 15.5.2, and I will wait for some feedback here...

Kind Regards

Joerg

[richfield · Accepted solution]

Dear All,

I found, that using ...

~$ bash VMware-Workstation-Full-15.5.5-16285975.x86_64.bundle --console

will help, i.e. that obviously the installation with GUI is the problem... well, I have no idea why, since the final product works fine, and I'm able to start any other GUI application without any problem. However, my problem is solved, the above command line option also helps installing the latest updtae to 15.5.6, which otherwise is also subject to fail.

So for me, I have my workaround, but I think the VMWare guy should have a closer look on this!?

Cheers

Joerg