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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] vmware server problem
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 01:52:27
Message-Id: 7573e9640612171743q437f2a11ka7766f72ebd149e4@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] vmware server problem by David Relson
1 On 12/17/06, David Relson <relson@×××××××××××××.com> wrote:
2 > Looking in /lib/modules/2.6.19-gentoo-r1 directory misc has newly built
3 > modules vmmon.ko and vmnet.ko
4
5 You need to make sure that /usr/src/linux points to the configured
6 sources of your currently running kernel. Otherwise vmmon and vmnet
7 will be built for the wrong kernel version (or wrong kernel config)
8 and fail to load.
9
10 >
11 > It would seem that modprobe is looking in the wrong directory. Running
12 > "strace modprobe vmmon" shows a read of
13 > "/lib/modules/2.6.19-gentoo-r1/ke"..., which is (unfortunately) an
14 > incomplete path.
15
16 Use the -s option to increase the length of the strings that strace
17 prints before truncating them...fex: "strace -s256 ..."
18
19 -Richard
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