On 07/13/2017 12:33 PM, Walter H. wrote: > On 12.07.2017 21:27, Mark C. Allman wrote: >> On 07/12/2017 12:14 PM, Walter H. wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I did this as explained here: >>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DNF_system_upgrade >>> >>> and after this I can't start VMware Workstation; >>> removing and installing VMware Workstation (latest release: 12.5.7) >>> new doesn't help ... >>> (the same as if I hadn't removed and installed new) >>> >>> ifconfig only shows this: >>> >>> enp63s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 >>> inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast >>> 192.168.1.255 >>> inet6 fe80::673e:4262:54d2:1816 prefixlen 64 scopeid >>> 0x20<link> >>> inet6 #myprefix#::1:1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x0<global> >>> ether 24:00:00:00:00:24 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) >>> RX packets 18656 bytes 1210711 (1.1 MiB) >>> RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 >>> TX packets 25349 bytes 35314278 (33.6 MiB) >>> TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 >>> device interrupt 17 >>> >>> lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536 >>> inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 >>> inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host> >>> loop txqueuelen 1000 (Local Loopback) >>> RX packets 32 bytes 2848 (2.7 KiB) >>> RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 >>> TX packets 32 bytes 2848 (2.7 KiB) >>> TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 >>> >>> >>> and before the upgrade there were two extra virtual interfaces from >>> VMware ... >>> one used when VMs run with Host-only network connection, and >>> one used when VMs run with NAT network connection ... >>> (the same as I'm used to with Windows release) >>> >>> Greetings, >>> Walter >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> First, sorry if this doesn't show up as plain text. It should but >> typing it in Thunderbird isn't showing it as plain text. >> >> Use "systemctl status vmware" to determine if the vmware services are >> all running. If it's my experience then I bet not. When I run >> sudo vmware-modconfig --console --install-all >> >> I get the error message "Failed to get gcc information." I had to do >> this (as root): >> cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source >> tar xf vmmon.tar >> cd vmmon-only >> make >> cd .. >> tar xf vmnet.tar >> cd vmnet-only >> make >> cd ../ >> mkdir /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc >> cp vmmon.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc >> cp vmnet.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc >> depmod -a >> systemctl vmware restart > so far this works and brings back the two virtual network interfaces ... > with the only difference I had to do this: > > cp vmmon.o /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc/vmmon.ko > cp vmnet.o /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc/vmnet.ko > > vmnet1: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > inet 192.168.151.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast > 192.168.151.255 > inet6 fe80::250:56ff:fec0:1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link> > ether 00:50:56:c0:00:01 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) > RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) > RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 > TX packets 41 bytes 0 (0.0 B) > TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 > > vmnet8: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > inet 192.168.21.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast > 192.168.21.255 > inet6 fe80::250:56ff:fec0:8 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link> > ether 00:50:56:c0:00:08 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) > RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) > RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 > TX packets 40 bytes 0 (0.0 B) > TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 > > but >> >> vmware (as in VMware-Workstation) still wouldn't start. Using strace I >> found that libexpat.so.0 wasn't being found so I then ran: >> ln -s /usr/lib64/libexpat.so.1.6.2 /usr/lib64/libexpat.so.0 > this doesn't help anything, VMware Wkst. still refuses to start ... > (even after a shutdown -r now) > > is there any log or similar where I can look for the reason if this? >> vmware would then run and my Windows 10 VM appears to be working fine >> (so far ;-). >> >> i googled around for the first part about the need to manually rebuild >> vmmon and vmnet. >> > Thanks, > Walter > > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Ugh! Yea -- forgot that the object files needed to have a ".ko" extension. I typed that all up from memory. Next step is to try to figure out why vmware still won't run. I'd recommend editing /usr/bin/vmware (which is a shell script) to tweak the bottom of the script from: if "$BINDIR"/vmware-modconfig --appname="VMware Workstation" --icon="vmware-workstation" && vmware_module_exists $vmmon; then exec "$libdir"/bin/"vmware" "$@" fi to look something like: #if "$BINDIR"/vmware-modconfig --appname="VMware Workstation" --icon="vmware-workstation" && if vmware_module_exists $vmmon; then exec "$libdir"/bin/"vmware" "$@" fi We may need to comment out running "$BINDIR"/vmware-modconfig --appname="VMware Workstation" --icon="vmware-workstation" because it might be failing with a "Failed to get gcc information" error. If it still won't start then make a copy of the exec line inside the "if," comment out the copy, and edit the uncommented line to something like: strace -o /tmp/debug.txt "$libdir"/bin/"vmware" "$@" Open /tmp/debug.txt and go to the bottom to look for some type of error that's happening. I removed the soft link to /usr/lib64/libexpat.so.0 that I mentioned in the earlier post, made the changes to /usr/bin/vmware, ran it, opened /tmp/debug.txt and I see a few lines from the bottom several error lines where the app is trying to open libexpat.so.0 from several different locations. Use strace to see if at about the end of the /tmp/debug.txt file you see some error messages. *Mark C. Allman, PMP, CSM* Founder, See How You Ski, www.seehowyouski.com <http://www.seehowyouski.com> Sr. Project Manager, Allman Professional Consulting, Inc., www.allmanpc.com <http://www.allmanpc.com> 617-947-4263, Twitter: @allmanpc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
