VMWare not running due to segmentation fault

[lpetersson]

Hi,

When I try to run VMWare Workstation 6.51 from a terminal, I get the following error:

lars@Khaine:/media/D$ vmware &
[1] 7273
lars@Khaine:/media/D$ Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0".
Logging to /tmp/vmware-lars/setup-7276.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: 7276 Segmentation fault "$BINDIR"/vmware-modconfig --appname="VMware Workstation" --icon="vmware-workstation"

I'm using Ubuntu 9.04 x64.

When installing from the file VMware-Workstation-6.5.1-126130.x86_64.bundle I don't get any errors, and the installation exits successfully.

Any ideas or more info I need to provide?

I'm pretty new to Linux, so I can easily imagine that there's something I'm just not getting...

Cheerio,
Lars

[lpetersson]

Oh well, never mind. Switching back to Vista now. It'll be nice to use an OS that works...

[codonnell]

hello.

just ran into this same situation. you have to allow vmware to compile modules for your system. this is accomplished by (as root) deleting or renaming the modules directory and starting vmware. it will compile what it needs automatically.

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

let vmware do its thing, then close it and reopen it normally.

best,

chuck

[JimmyKatz]

Confirmed. That's the way to go. Took me a while figuring this out.

[jmaryinchina]

Actually I got that same behaviour after upgrading to 2.6.28-13 kernel. The point if the building of the new modules is failing and, the following commands are doing a part of the job but not totally :

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

sudo vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

At the end of this process we are still left with :

Stopping VMware services:
Virtual machine communication interface done
Virtual machine monitor done
Blocking file system done
Starting VMware services:
Virtual machine monitor done
Virtual machine communication interface done
Blocking file system done
Virtual ethernet failed


That means no network for the virtual machines.