problem running vmware after successful install/config

amdviaman · 2005-12-18 11:04:38

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?

shbang · 2005-12-18 11:35:01

Are you in the vmware group?

amdviaman · 2005-12-18 11:46:18

no, running as root

shbang · 2005-12-18 12:00:05

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 · 2005-12-18 12:03:45

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!

Lone_Wolf · 2005-12-18 16:44:30

The AUR has a good package for WS 5.5.

Arch Linux

#1 2005-12-18 11:04:38

problem running vmware after successful install/config

#2 2005-12-18 11:35:01

Re: problem running vmware after successful install/config

#3 2005-12-18 11:46:18

Re: problem running vmware after successful install/config

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