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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:
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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.
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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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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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I faced the same problem, installing over WS 7.1.4. Is this issue upgrade-only, by any chance?
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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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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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I managed to do it without -I switch, only by following updated Arch Wiki
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