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kpalmer78

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Registered: 2015-03-03

Posts: 12

VMWARE Workstation 11 USB arbitrator issue

Greetings all I have ran across a problem with vmware workstation, and the vmware-USBArbitrator.service . this is what the service shows:

[kenny@TITAN ~]$ sudo systemctl status vmware-USBArbitrator -l
● vmware-USBArbitrator.service - VMware USB Arbitrator
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/vmware-USBArbitrator.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (exited) (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2015-03-02 18:00:03 MST; 2min 1s ago
  Process: 240 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/vmware-USBArbitrator start (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)
Main PID: 240 (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)
   CGroup: /system.slice/vmware-USBArbitrator.service

Mar 02 18:00:03 TITAN systemd[1]: Starting VMware USB Arbitrator...
Mar 02 18:00:03 TITAN systemd[1]: Started VMware USB Arbitrator.
Mar 02 18:00:03 TITAN systemd[1]: vmware-USBArbitrator.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=203/EXEC
[kenny@TITAN ~]$ uname -r
3.18.6-1-ARCH

I am not able to find anything by googling thus far. Just wondering if anyone has seen this. This was working but I did do a "yaourt -Syua" over the weekend and I am afraid this may be some fallout.

By the way I am really enjoying arch so far. I am about 3 weeks in and have things running well.

kpalmer78

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Registered: 2015-03-03

Posts: 12

Re: VMWARE Workstation 11 USB arbitrator issue

replying to my own post in case others have issues. Apparently there is 2 USB arbitration services?

vmware-usbarbitrator.service

and

vmware-USBArbitrator

The service (vmware-USBArbitrator.service) points to  ->>  /etc/init.d/vmware-USBArbitrator which is an invalid file location.

The service, (vmware-usbarbitrator.service) points to ->> /usr/lib/systemd/system/vmware-usbarbitrator.service which is a legit location.

In short, running the command:

sudo systemctl status vmware-usbarbitrator

fixes the issue.

Very confusing and hopefully worked out by the devs.

Kenny

nandoZ

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Registered: 2015-05-01

Posts: 2

Re: VMWARE Workstation 11 USB arbitrator issue

Hello,

I had the same issue with VMware Player (Pro) 7, in my case I only have the  /etc/systemd/system/vmware-USBArbitrator.service which points to /etc/init.d/vmware-USBArbitrator (I've edited manually following this guide: VMware#systemd_services )

the file /etc/init.d/vmware-USBArbitrator by default does not have execute permissions.

So it worked for me to make it executable:

 sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/vmware-USBArbitrator 

You should also check that /etc/systemd/system/vmware-USBArbitrator.service have execute permissions.

I hope it works.