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Pednick

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Registered: 2014-04-09

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[SOLVED]VMware-Workstation install error

Anyone else getting this error while trying to install VMware-Workstation-Full-10.0.3-1895310.x86_64.bundle? Just started happening after latest kernel update, installed just fine before.

Extracting VMware Installer...done.
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Attempt to unlock mutex that was not locked
/tmp/vmis.SbhNmP/install/vmware-installer/vmware-installer: line 56:  1594 Aborted                 (core dumped) VMWARE_INSTALLER="$VMWARE_INSTALLER" VMISPYVERSION="$VMISPYVERSION" "$VMWARE_INSTALLER"/vmis-launcher "$VMWARE_INSTALLER"/vmware-installer.py "$@"

Last edited by Pednick (2014-10-24 00:55:00)

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Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED]VMware-Workstation install error

Please post the output of the following:

pacman -Qs libcanberra

pacman -Qi linux

uname -a

if the version numbers from the second and third command don't match, reboot.

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Pednick

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Registered: 2014-04-09

Posts: 38

Re: [SOLVED]VMware-Workstation install error

Please post the output of the following:

pacman -Qs libcanberra

pacman -Qi linux

uname -a

if the version numbers from the second and third command don't match, reboot.

Thanks for the info, I already had libcanberra installed. I manually do that after a fresh install so I don't know why the errors show. Anyway I found out I can do this:

./VMware-Workstation-Full-10.0.3-1895310.x86_64.bundle --console --eulas-agreed

pacman -S linux-headers then reboot

uname -r

find / -name headers

Worked after that.

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djpohly

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Registered: 2007-08-14

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Re: [SOLVED]VMware-Workstation install error

If it's working for you now, you can probably mark the topic [SOLVED].

I had the same problem with the uninstallation process until I added the --console option; looks like that's the key to the workaround.