VMware player won't start after kernel update

christian1337 · 2013-06-16 11:11:54

Hi,

today I've updated to 3.9.6-1 kernel and all went good. So I wanted to start my vmware player to start a vm. Of course I've done the needed steps in the vmplayer wiki page to setup the new headers and stuff after kernel update for vmplayer. Also I've ran "vmware-patch -f" and ran trough. But still get an error when I wanted to start the player in the "/tmp/vmware-root/vmware-modconfig-11986.log":

2013-06-16T13:03:51.680+01:00| vthread-3| I120: Log for VMware Workstation pid=11986 version=9.0.2 build=build-1031769 option=Release
2013-06-16T13:03:51.680+01:00| vthread-3| I120: The process is 64-bit.
2013-06-16T13:03:51.680+01:00| vthread-3| I120: Host codepage=UTF-8 encoding=UTF-8
2013-06-16T13:03:51.680+01:00| vthread-3| I120: Host is Linux 3.9.6-1-ARCH 2013.04.01
2013-06-16T13:03:51.680+01:00| vthread-3| I120: Msg_Reset:
2013-06-16T13:03:51.680+01:00| vthread-3| I120: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "/usr/lib/vmware/settings": No such file or directory.
2013-06-16T13:03:51.680+01:00| vthread-3| I120: ----------------------------------------
2013-06-16T13:03:51.680+01:00| vthread-3| I120: PREF Optional preferences file not found at /usr/lib/vmware/settings. Using default values.
2013-06-16T13:03:51.680+01:00| vthread-3| I120: Msg_Reset:
2013-06-16T13:03:51.680+01:00| vthread-3| I120: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "/root/.vmware/config": No such file or directory.
2013-06-16T13:03:51.680+01:00| vthread-3| I120: ----------------------------------------
2013-06-16T13:03:51.680+01:00| vthread-3| I120: PREF Optional preferences file not found at /root/.vmware/config. Using default values.
2013-06-16T13:03:51.680+01:00| vthread-3| I120: Msg_Reset:
2013-06-16T13:03:51.680+01:00| vthread-3| I120: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "/root/.vmware/preferences": No such file or directory.
2013-06-16T13:03:51.680+01:00| vthread-3| I120: ----------------------------------------
2013-06-16T13:03:51.680+01:00| vthread-3| I120: PREF Failed to load user preferences.
2013-06-16T13:03:51.680+01:00| vthread-3| W110: Logging to /tmp/vmware-root/vmware-modconfig-11986.log
2013-06-16T13:03:51.687+01:00| vthread-3| I120: Reading in info for the vmmon module.
2013-06-16T13:03:51.687+01:00| vthread-3| I120: Reading in info for the vmnet module.
2013-06-16T13:03:51.687+01:00| vthread-3| I120: Reading in info for the vmblock module.
2013-06-16T13:03:51.687+01:00| vthread-3| I120: Reading in info for the vmci module.
2013-06-16T13:03:51.687+01:00| vthread-3| I120: Reading in info for the vsock module.
2013-06-16T13:03:51.687+01:00| vthread-3| I120: Setting vsock to depend on vmci.
2013-06-16T13:03:51.687+01:00| vthread-3| I120: Created new pathsHash.
2013-06-16T13:03:51.687+01:00| vthread-3| I120: Invoking modinfo on "vmmon".
2013-06-16T13:03:51.689+01:00| vthread-3| I120: "/sbin/modinfo" exited with status 0.
2013-06-16T13:03:51.689+01:00| vthread-3| I120: Invoking modinfo on "vmnet".
2013-06-16T13:03:51.690+01:00| vthread-3| I120: "/sbin/modinfo" exited with status 0.
2013-06-16T13:03:51.690+01:00| vthread-3| I120: Invoking modinfo on "vmblock".
2013-06-16T13:03:51.691+01:00| vthread-3| I120: "/sbin/modinfo" exited with status 0.
2013-06-16T13:03:51.691+01:00| vthread-3| I120: Invoking modinfo on "vmci".
2013-06-16T13:03:51.693+01:00| vthread-3| I120: "/sbin/modinfo" exited with status 0.
2013-06-16T13:03:51.693+01:00| vthread-3| I120: Invoking modinfo on "vsock".
2013-06-16T13:03:51.696+01:00| vthread-3| I120: "/sbin/modinfo" exited with status 0.

Maybe it has something to do with the last filesystem update?
But I don't know what to do really and couldn't found anything on that.

thanks

christian1337 · 2013-06-16 11:23:51

sorry, found something now in another thread here. this fix works just fyi:

kokoko3k wrote:

Quick and dirty workaround to fully update your system

sudo pacman -Suy #update everything

sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/gtkmm && cd /usr/local/lib/gtkmm 

sudo wget http://arm.konnichi.com/2013/01/05/extra/os/x86_64/gtkmm-2.24.2-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
#sudo wget http://arm.konnichi.com/2013/01/05/extra/os/i686/gtkmm-2.24.2-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz #The bug affects i686 too.

sudo tar -xvf ./gtkmm-2.24.2-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
#sudo tar -xvf ./gtkmm-2.24.2-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz  #The bug affects i686 too.

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/gtkmm/usr/lib/ vmplayer #start it with old libraries

kokoko3k · 2013-07-01 10:40:43

Since the today update, seems the workaround is not needed anymore

Arch Linux

#1 2013-06-16 11:11:54

VMware player won't start after kernel update

#2 2013-06-16 11:23:51

Re: VMware player won't start after kernel update

#3 2013-07-01 10:40:43

Re: VMware player won't start after kernel update

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