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amdviaman

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From: Panama City, Florida

Registered: 2005-04-15

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problem running vmware after successful install/config

I installed vmware 5.5 on archlinux 0.7.1 under kernel 2.6.13 with gcc version 4.0.3 following the steps in the wiki. The install and configuration scripts seemed to run very smoothly, so I rebooted and went to run vmware and all I get is this

 vmware is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured
for this system. To (re-)configure it, invoke the following command:
/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl.

so I ran vmware-config.pl again, it seemed to work, but still when i went to run vmware, i get the same message! Is there anything i could do to fix this?

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shbang

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Registered: 2005-10-03

Posts: 76

Re: problem running vmware after successful install/config

Are you in the vmware group?

amdviaman

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From: Panama City, Florida

Registered: 2005-04-15

Posts: 28

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Re: problem running vmware after successful install/config

no, running as root

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Desktop: Biostar GeForce 6100-M9 + AMD64 4000+ 2.4GHz, 1MB L2 + 1GB DDR400 + 80GB PATA 500GB SATA + Nvidia 7600GT, 256MB GDDR3
Notebook: HP Pavilion DV6-1245DX + Intel Core 2 Duo T6500, 2.10GHz, 2MB L2 + 4GB DDR2 + 320GB SATA + Intel 4500MHD, 17" Widescreen + Lightscribe DVD+RW

shbang

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Registered: 2005-10-03

Posts: 76

Re: problem running vmware after successful install/config

is there a file in /etc/vmware folder called not_configured or something like that?

delete that file and remove anything in your /tmp directory about vmware and try running the script again

If I recall I had to create /etc/vmware/init.d/rc0.d thru /etc/vware/init.d/rc6.d also

amdviaman

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From: Panama City, Florida

Registered: 2005-04-15

Posts: 28

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Re: problem running vmware after successful install/config

thank you very much! it was the not_configured file. I don't know why the init script did not delete it as it was told!   thanks again!

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Desktop: Biostar GeForce 6100-M9 + AMD64 4000+ 2.4GHz, 1MB L2 + 1GB DDR400 + 80GB PATA 500GB SATA + Nvidia 7600GT, 256MB GDDR3
Notebook: HP Pavilion DV6-1245DX + Intel Core 2 Duo T6500, 2.10GHz, 2MB L2 + 4GB DDR2 + 320GB SATA + Intel 4500MHD, 17" Widescreen + Lightscribe DVD+RW

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 11,911

Re: problem running vmware after successful install/config

The AUR has a good package for WS 5.5.

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Disliking systemd intensely, but not satisfied with alternatives so focusing on taming systemd.

(A works at time B)  && (time C > time B ) ≠  (A works at time C)