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From: Jules Colding <colding@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo Users <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-user] VMware 5.0 stopped working after last emerge
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 10:58:30
Message-Id: 1127127227.9546.5.camel@omc-2.omesc.com
1 Hi,
2
3 I am now getting:
4
5 "Unable to change virtual machine power state: Failed to connect to peer
6 process."
7
8 when I try to boot any guest OS. I have added myself to the vmware
9 group, executed the vmware-config.pl script and even logged out and in
10 again.
11
12 Any ideas?
13
14 Thanks,
15 jules
16
17
18 VMware version:
19 vmware-workstation-5.0.0.13124-r2
20
21
22 VMware entries in /dev:
23 omc-2 dev # ll | grep vm
24 crw-rw---- 1 root vmware 10, 165 Sep 19 12:34 vmmon
25 crw------- 1 root root 119, 0 Jul 22 01:56 vmnet0
26 crw------- 1 root root 119, 1 Jul 22 01:56 vmnet1
27 crw------- 1 root root 119, 2 Jul 22 01:56 vmnet2
28 crw------- 1 root root 119, 3 Jul 22 01:56 vmnet3
29 crw------- 1 root root 119, 4 Jul 22 01:56 vmnet4
30 crw------- 1 root root 119, 5 Jul 22 01:56 vmnet5
31 crw------- 1 root root 119, 6 Jul 22 01:56 vmnet6
32 crw------- 1 root root 119, 7 Jul 22 01:56 vmnet7
33 crw------- 1 root root 119, 8 Jul 22 01:56 vmnet8
34 crw------- 1 root root 119, 9 Jul 22 01:56 vmnet9
35
36
37 emerge --info:
38 omc-2 ~ # emerge --info
39 Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 x86_64)
40 =================================================================
41 System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 x86_64 AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 252
42 Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
43 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2
44 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12
45 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6
46 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6
47 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10
48 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1
49 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2
50 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
51 AUTOCLEAN="yes"
52 CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
53 CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe"
54 CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
55 CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
56 CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
57 CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe"
58 DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
59 FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
60 GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://mirror.gentoo.no/ http://gentoo.prz.rzeszow.pl http://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo ftp://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo"
61 PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
62 PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
63 PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
64 SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
65 USE="amd64 X aac aalib alsa avi berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 cdr crypt cups curl dvd dvdr dvdread eds emacs emboss encode esd fam fbcon foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv imlib ipv6 java jpeg ldap libwww lzw lzw-tiff mad motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl symlink tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales vorbis xine xml2 xmms xpm xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
66 Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
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