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waldek_a

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From: Munich, Germany

Registered: 2005-04-19

Posts: 85

vmware server: revert - vmdb failure insufficient permission

quick question to people running vmware-server. I installed it from AUR. It works fine except for Revert (Snapshot works or to be more precise it gives no error).
vmware gui gives me two pop-up windows with the following error messages as soon as I press the "Revert" button:
- vmdb failure
- insufficient permissions

I found following messages in:

/var/log/vmware/vmware-servers.log

Dec 26 18:24:11: app| SP: Retrieved username: waldek
Dec 26 18:24:12: app| OvlHostStartIo: errno 104
Dec 26 18:24:12: app| vmdbPipe_Streams: Couldn't read
Dec 26 18:24:12: app| VMServerd IPC closed the connection with thread /home/VMs/Arch-Voodoo/Arch-Voodoo.vmx (0x831b218)
Dec 26 18:24:12: app| Lost connection to /home/VMs/Arch-Voodoo/Arch-Voodoo.vmx (/home/VMs/Arch-Voodoo/Arch-Voodoo.vmx) unexpectedly.
Dec 26 18:24:12: app| VM suddenly changed state: poweredOff.
Dec 26 18:24:12: app| VMDB OP FAIL:
Dec 26 18:24:12: app| Backtrace:
Dec 26 18:24:12: app| Backtrace[0] 0xbf9cb9c8 eip 0x807a71e
Dec 26 18:24:12: app| Backtrace[1] 0xbf9cbd08 eip 0x812394e
Dec 26 18:24:12: app| Backtrace[2] 0xbf9cc098 eip 0x81d55c0
Dec 26 18:24:12: app| Backtrace[3] 0xbf9cc0a8 eip 0x81cb996
Dec 26 18:24:12: app| Backtrace[4] 0xbf9cc248 eip 0x8122eba
Dec 26 18:24:12: app| Backtrace[5] 0xbf9cc2a8 eip 0x813a819
Dec 26 18:24:12: app| Backtrace[6] 0xbf9cc2c8 eip 0x80e3227
Dec 26 18:24:12: app| Backtrace[7] 0xbf9cc2f8 eip 0x80e31a8
Dec 26 18:24:12: app| Backtrace[8] 0xbf9ccf68 eip 0x80e3423
Dec 26 18:24:12: app| Backtrace[9] 0xbf9ccfa8 eip 0x80e28e8
Dec 26 18:24:12: app| Backtrace[10] 0xbf9ccfc8 eip 0x80e29b8
Dec 26 18:24:12: app| Backtrace[11] 0xbf9ccff8 eip 0x8079314
Dec 26 18:24:12: app| Backtrace[12] 0xbf9cd018 eip 0x8078595
Dec 26 18:24:12: app| Backtrace[13] 0xbf9cd078 eip 0xb7dfc7c8
Dec 26 18:24:12: app| Backtrace[14] 00000000 eip 0x80783b1
Dec 26 18:24:12: app| Vmdb_Unset failed: /vm/#d710dfecd02bffe0/vmx/chkptState/req/#74/ (Pipe connection has been broken)
Dec 26 18:24:12: app| Removing from running vm list: /home/VMs/Arch-Voodoo/Arch-Voodoo.vmx
Dec 26 18:24:12: app| VM suddenly changed state: poweredOff.
Dec 26 18:24:12: app| VM suddenly changed state: poweredOff.
Dec 26 18:24:12: app| VM suddenly changed state: poweredOff.
Dec 26 18:24:12: app| SP: Retrieved username: waldek
Dec 26 18:24:12: app| Error when reading from snhelper: Error:10:Insufficient permissions
Dec 26 18:24:12: app| VMHSVMCbVmxChkptState failed: ret = VMDB failure
Dec 26 18:24:12: app| SP: Retrieved username: waldek
Dec 26 18:24:12: app| VM suddenly changed state: poweredOff.

and in /tmp/vmware-waldek/ui*.log:

Dec 26 18:24:11: vmui| SnapshotTree: Restoring snapshot 0
Dec 26 18:24:11: vmui| Reverting to snapshot...
Dec 26 18:24:12: vmui| Vmdb error -32 sending asynchronous update in VmdbCnxRecvStatus
Dec 26 18:24:12: vmui| VmdbCnxRecvSection failed: STATUS (-32) Pipe: Read failed
Dec 26 18:24:12: vmui| VmdbCnxRecvTuples got invalid remote path /vm/#d710dfecd02bffe0/mks/
Dec 26 18:24:12: vmui| Vmdb_Unset failed: ../vmx/localMksOwner/ (Pipe: Read failed)
Dec 26 18:24:12: vmui| VMNetCtlConstruct: no Network Names to list
Dec 26 18:24:12: vmui| VMUIGtkVmdb_LoadDevice: unhandled device class scsiCtlr
Dec 26 18:24:12: vmui| VMNetCtlConstruct: no Network Names to list
Dec 26 18:24:12: vmui| VMUIGtkVmdb_LoadDevice: unhandled device class scsiCtlr
Dec 26 18:24:12: vmui| VSlot_Call: object 0x918d3f0 has already been destroyed
Dec 26 18:24:12: vmui| VSlot_Call: object 0xb36b758 has already been destroyed
Dec 26 18:24:12: vmui| SnapshotTree: Restore failed: VMDB failure

could anybody try taking a snapshot and then reverting? Don't do it on a machine you need!

cheers

waldek

dninja

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From: Sheffield, UK

Registered: 2006-04-29

Posts: 374

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Re: vmware server: revert - vmdb failure insufficient permission

Hi
Don't know if you got this fixed but I just had the same error. A bit of googling found this:
http://www.vmware.com/community/message … eID=375968

which then led to max connection errors which was fixed by this:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=34594

All seems ok now.

raku

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Registered: 2006-08-23

Posts: 48

Re: vmware server: revert - vmdb failure insufficient permission

Hi
Don't know if you got this fixed but I just had the same error. A bit of googling found this:
http://www.vmware.com/community/message … eID=375968

which then led to max connection errors which was fixed by this:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=34594

All seems ok now.

Your clues seems to have no sense for me.
First link point to a problem with vmware and pam, second to some problems with syslog-ng.
I don't know how it is relevant to problems with vmware's snapshot.

Anyone has an idea? As I have the same problem as waldek_a

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raku