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#1 2011-09-16 20:03:29

karabaja4
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[SOLVED] VMware Workstation 8 fails to install

I'm trying to install latest VMware Workstation 8.
Installation fails in the middle. On about 50% it begins to uninstall itself because of an error. The message at the end says only "Installation was unsuccessful."

The critical part of the vmware-installer log (I think) is this:

...
  File "/tmp/vmis.ooJaRW/install/vmware-installer/vmis/db.py", line 33, in decorator
    raise IntegrityError(unicode(e))

IntegrityError: column path is not unique

[2011-09-16 23:46:57,768] [vmware-usbarbitrator 8.4.18] Installation failed, rolling back installation.
...

Since it's a python script, I tried running it through python 2.x with no success. Judging by it's name (db.py) it also seems to be related to some database system, but I don't know what to do there.

This is a full vmware-installer log:
http://andromeda.kiwilight.com/~dule/up … -installer

Last edited by karabaja4 (2011-09-17 20:30:29)

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#2 2011-09-17 07:13:46

russo79
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Re: [SOLVED] VMware Workstation 8 fails to install

Hi

I managed to install VMware Workstation 8 by doing the following:

Run installer as follows:

#sudo bash VMware-Workstation-Full-8.0.0-471780.x86_64.bundle --console --custom -I

The -I switch will ignore installer related errors.
Reply to the installer questions as usual (default answers seem to work rather well).

Once the application in installed I had to create the following symlinks

#sudo ln -s /etc/init.d/vmware /etc/rc.d/vmware
#sudo ln -s /etc/init.d/vmware-workstation-server /etc/rc.d/vmware-workstation-server

Everything seems to be working on my computer.

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#3 2011-09-17 15:02:09

BaloneyGeek
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Re: [SOLVED] VMware Workstation 8 fails to install

I faced the same problem, installing over WS 7.1.4. Is this issue upgrade-only, by any chance?

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#4 2011-09-17 17:03:56

karabaja4
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Re: [SOLVED] VMware Workstation 8 fails to install

BaloneyGeek wrote:

I faced the same problem, installing over WS 7.1.4. Is this issue upgrade-only, by any chance?

No, I made clean installation.

I'm going try russo79's suggestion a bit later and report.

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#5 2011-09-17 18:18:52

BaloneyGeek
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Re: [SOLVED] VMware Workstation 8 fails to install

Ah, russo79's suggestions works. Workstation works completely, but can't get the Shared VMs thingy to work. It gives me a 403.

Oh and you're right it's a DB issue. It's actually a SQLite issue. VMIS is the VMware Installer System. Apparently VMware 8 got a new version of the Installer (VMIS 2.0) which uses a shiny new SQLite DB to store installation info, and it's broken.

Last edited by BaloneyGeek (2011-09-17 18:23:09)

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#6 2011-09-17 20:30:10

karabaja4
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Re: [SOLVED] VMware Workstation 8 fails to install

I managed to do it without -I switch, only by following updated Arch Wiki yikes

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VMware

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