VMware Player 126130 x86_64 RPM fails to start on F10

[georgekodinov]

Hi,

I've just installed a fresh Fedora 10 on my box.

I can no longer start the VMware player : it installs fine (note not when the system language is bg_BG, but OK after 'export LANG=en_US), but I can't seem to be able to start the VMware services:

# /etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware start

Starting VMware services:

Virtual machine monitor

Virtual machine communication interface

Blocking file system

Virtual ethernet

And consequently :

$ vmplayer

Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display "localhost:12.0".

Logging to /tmp/vmware-kgeorge/setup-17541.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/bin/vmplayer: line 31: 17541 Segmentation fault (core dumped) "$BINDIR"/vmware-modconfig --appname="VMware Player" --icon="vmware-player"

[tsvetanfilev · Accepted solution]

Yes me too.

openSUSE 11.1

VMware-Player-2.5.1-126130.x86_64.rpm

4G:/home/ceco # vmplayer

Logging to /tmp/vmware-root/setup-2668.log

(vmware-modconfig:2668): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "qtcurve",

/usr/share/themes/Clearlooks/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:72: error: unexpected identifier `colorize_scrollbar', expected character `}'

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/bin/vmplayer: line 31: 2668 Segmentation fault "$BINDIR"/vmware-modconfig --appname="VMware Player" --icon="vmware-player"

vmware-config.pl is not available anymore

it seems all modules are compiled but there are problems with the new new kernel

[tsvetanfilev]

The problem is that modules should be precompiled:

As ROOT

mv /usr/lib/vmware/modules/binary /usr/lib/vmware/modules/binary.old

then run as root "vmware" and it will recompile(or start vmware from the start menu)

[Speedbird]

tsvetanfilev, I think you got it man, koodos to you..

I am running a Fedora 10 host, trying to install VMWare Player (VMware-Player-2.5.1-126130.x86_64.rpm) on x86_64 (AMD Phenom), basically this is what I did:

sudo su (or whatever command you use to become root)

rpm -Uvh VMware-Player-2.5.1-126130.x86_64.rpm

(Now look at /var/log/vmware-installer, you'll see the "kernel module cannot be installed message)

(Now do as tsvetanfilev mentions):

mv /usr/lib/vmware/modules/binary /usr/lib/vmware/modules/binary.old

Then just run vmplayer (as root), then it'll happily compile the kernel modules for you, and start the app).

Thanks.

[Lando_Griffin]

tsvetanfilev, thanks so much! I was wondering how to force the rebuild.

-Rick

[georgekodinov]

Yep, Tsvetan's trick did it for me as well. thanks a lot.

[jonathan_haywar]

Your mv command worked great for VMware Player giving the above error messages on upgrade to Ubuntu 9.04 (amd64).

Jonathan

http://JonathansCorner.com/

[mhf]

Thanks tsvetanfilev, you saved my day.

In a few days I have exam and project presentation. My project, report and power points for presentation all are in my winxp in virtual machine.

I upgraded to ubuntu 9.4 and suddenly vmware stoped working.

THANK YOU