/usr/bin/vmware: line 31: 5266 Segmentation fault

[alphabesf]

Greetings,

just installed VMware-Workstation-6.5.1-126130.x86_64.rpm

under Open Suse 11.0 64bit (Linux linux-bymz 2.6.27.7-9-default #1 SMP 2008-12-04 18:10:04 +0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux)

installation went fine but when I am trying to:

> vmware

Logging to /tmp/vmware-secop/setup-5266.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/vmware: line 31: 5266 Segmentation fault "$BINDIR"/vmware-modcig --appname="VMware Workstation" --icon="vmware-workstation"

Any suggestions as to how to make it work are greatly appreciated.

[admin]

VMware Workstation is looking for its kernel modules and isn't finding them. Run /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl to rebuild them, you need the kernel-headers to do this. You'll have to do this every time you update the kernel on your machine.

[mkossmann · Accepted solution]

Move away the precompiled binary modules directory /usr/lib/vmware/modules/binary. Then the startup script will try to compile the matching modules for your kernel.

[alphabesf]

Thank you. Moved binary to x_binary and started vmware. Got it recompiled and the app poped up.