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SalahG

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Registered: 2014-12-30

Posts: 2

[SOLVED] Cannot uninstall VMware - Attempt to unlock mutex

Was trying to uninstall vmware-workstation and was not able to

# vmware-installer -u vmware-workstation
Attempt to unlock mutex that was not locked
/usr/bin/vmware-installer: line 56:  1828 Aborted                 (core dumped) VMWARE_INSTALLER="$VMWARE_INSTALLER" VMISPYVERSION="$VMISPYVERSION" "$VMWARE_INSTALLER"/vmis-launcher "$VMWARE_INSTALLER"/vmware-installer.py "$@"

Linux 3.17.6-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Dec 7 23:43:32 UTC 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux  

# vmware-installer -l
Product Name         Product Version     
==================== ====================
vmware-workstation   10.0.4.2249910  

I finally managed to do it using the python script:

# python2 /usr/lib/vmware-installer/2.1.0/vmware-installer.py -u vmware-workstation
Uninstalling VMware Installer 2.1.0
    Deconfiguring...
[######################################################################] 100%
Uninstallation was successful.

So I thought I would post it in case this could help anyone. HTH

MOD EDIT: please use [ code ] tags.

Last edited by fukawi2 (2014-12-30 22:16:27)

smoneck

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Registered: 2014-05-14

Posts: 105

Re: [SOLVED] Cannot uninstall VMware - Attempt to unlock mutex

Thanks a lot -- had the same problem!

Thrawn

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Registered: 2012-05-01

Posts: 17

Re: [SOLVED] Cannot uninstall VMware - Attempt to unlock mutex

Same here, thanks a lot. I would be interrested in the root-cause...