Hi folks,
Been running Workstation on ubuntu linux for quite a while now, following both kernel and vmware updates over the course of time. I updated to 7.1.3 when it was released - against kernel 2.6.35.7 - all good there, however two days ago something popped, workstation crashed during the middle of the day with no error message, and refused to restart - a situation a good reboot and cup of tea didn't resolve.
When starting from the cli, you see the various modules info and then the cli prompt reappears without the vmware gui starting, as follows..
root@uxps13:/tmp/vmware-root# vmware
Logging to /tmp/vmware-root/setup-9772.log
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.36.1-aiken101130/misc/vmmon.ko
supported: external
license: GPL v2
description: VMware Virtual Machine Monitor.
author: VMware, Inc.
srcversion: 6256B94A5A931D8660CA32C
depends:
vermagic: 2.6.36.1-aiken101130 SMP mod_unload modversions
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.36.1-aiken101130/misc/vmnet.ko
supported: external
license: GPL v2
description: VMware Virtual Networking Driver.
author: VMware, Inc.
srcversion: BA27D4B9C3E68236B5A0426
depends:
vermagic: 2.6.36.1-aiken101130 SMP mod_unload modversions
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.36.1-aiken101130/misc/vmblock.ko
supported: external
version: 1.1.2.0
license: GPL v2
description: VMware Blocking File System
author: VMware, Inc.
srcversion: 400149ED038D22A87322D56
depends:
vermagic: 2.6.36.1-aiken101130 SMP mod_unload modversions
parm: root:The directory the file system redirects to. (charp)
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.36.1-aiken101130/misc/vmci.ko
supported: external
license: GPL v2
description: VMware Virtual Machine Communication Interface (VMCI).
author: VMware, Inc.
srcversion: A010E9D2C04943FA8178682
depends:
vermagic: 2.6.36.1-aiken101130 SMP mod_unload modversions
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.36.1-aiken101130/misc/vsock.ko
supported: external
license: GPL v2
version: 1.0.0.0
description: VMware Virtual Socket Family
author: VMware, Inc.
srcversion: 9CBB49B6C9391C4760D8318
depends: vmci
vermagic: 2.6.36.1-aiken101130 SMP mod_unload modversions
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.36.1-aiken101130/misc/vmmon.ko
supported: external
license: GPL v2
description: VMware Virtual Machine Monitor.
author: VMware, Inc.
srcversion: 6256B94A5A931D8660CA32C
depends:
vermagic: 2.6.36.1-aiken101130 SMP mod_unload modversions
root@uxps13:/tmp/vmware-root#
if I checkout the log file, you only get the following info:
Dec 01 12:32:25.327: app-140337018435328| Log for VMware Workstation pid=14234 version=7.1.3 build=build-324285 option=Release
Dec 01 12:32:25.327: app-140337018435328| The process is 64-bit.
Dec 01 12:32:25.327: app-140337018435328| Host codepage=UTF-8 encoding=UTF-8
Dec 01 12:32:25.327: app-140337018435328| Logging to /tmp/vmware-murraysc/setup-14234.log
Dec 01 12:32:25.471: app-140337018435328| modconf query interface initialized
Dec 01 12:32:25.471: app-140337018435328| modconf library initialized
In the course of trying to resolve it, I've downgraded back two revisions of workstation with the same result, and upgraded to kernel 2.6.36.1, all on the off-chance I might get a little more info to troubleshoot this one.
Also confirmed via the package manager that no updates / upgrades have been made in the last 4 days that I can reverse to try and pin the issue down.
The only other message that I can find, is this one in the syslog:
http:// 5981.007860 vmware-tray[14275]: segfault at 0 ip 00007fe874ef88a0 sp 00007fffff485b98 error 4 in libgdkmm-2.4.so.1.1.0[7fe874ec600048000]+
it doesn't happen every time you try and run vmware - seems almost random.. There are only two copies of libgdkmm-2.4 on the system, one in the vmware directory, and the other in /usr/lib - out of desperation I tried copying the vmware one over to see if that got me any further - but no luck.
Is there any way to get some more verbose logging out of workstation during startup to try and pin this down ?
It's a bit of a curly one - appreciate any advice you might have,
Scott.
