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Raisuli
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 Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 8:31 pm Post subject: Yet Another VMWare Problem |
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My VMWare decided to quit working a few versions ago. I've finally gotten to the point where it quits talking to me unless I'm root. From the command line I get precisely no feedback. As root it runs fine, so I'm missing permissions somewhere. The user log is:
| Code: | Jan 04 13:09:39: vmui| Log for VMware Workstation pid=4375 version=5.5.1 build=build-19175 option=Release
Jan 04 13:09:40: vmui| Using log file /tmp/vmware-random/ui-4375.log
Jan 04 13:09:40: vmui| HAL04LoadHALLibraries: Could not dlopen libhal.so.0.
Jan 04 13:09:40: vmui| HAL05LoadHALLibraries: Could not dlopen libhal.so.1.
Jan 04 13:09:43: vmui| SMBIOS: can't open /dev/mem
Jan 04 13:09:43: vmui| VmhsHostInfoPopulateSystem: Could not get information from smbios to populate VMDB.
Jan 04 13:09:43: vmui| HOSTINFO: Seeing Intel CPU, numCoresPerCPU 1 numThreadsPerCore 1.
Jan 04 13:09:43: vmui| HOSTINFO: This machine has 1 physical CPUS, 1 total cores, and 1 logical CPUs.
Jan 04 13:09:43: vmui| Using system libcrypto, version 90705F
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The user is a member of the VMWare group, verified by the groups command. I have rebooted many times since then, so I don't think it's a login issue. The VMWare permissions are:
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/opt/vmware/workstation/lib/bin
total 17352
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 3 16:32 ./
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 Jan 3 16:32 ../
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 4401860 Jan 3 16:32 vmplayer*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2273740 Jan 3 16:32 vmrun*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6859416 Jan 3 16:32 vmware*
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root vmware 4183128 Jan 4 13:23 vmware-vmx*
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I have removed my .vmware directory to no effect. I recompiled the kernel under the same gcc as the vmware modules. All vmware services report running. Given it will run under root I suspect this is a head-bangingly simple permissions twitch.
Help, naturally, is greatly appreciated. |
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steveb
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| Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 11:50 pm Post subject: |
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Did you add your username to the vmware goup? If not, then you need to do that.
cheers
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Raisuli
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| Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 4:51 am Post subject: |
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pluto ~ $ groups
wheel audio games users vmware
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steveb
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| Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 5:43 am Post subject: |
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If you think that it is a permission problem, then unmerge vmware and remove /opt/vmware and then reinstall vmware again. Does that fix the problem?
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Raisuli
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| Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 5:59 pm Post subject: |
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Ok, did that to the point of removing /etc/vmware, ~/.vmware, /opt/vmware, /tmp/vmware*, /etc/init.d/vmware, etc. I even took the vmware group out.
Same problem. The CPU spikes to 100% for a few seconds the first time I try, then drops to 0 and rests. No feedback from the command line at all, and nothing past the vmui/libcrypto in the logs. I even made my default group in passwd vmware. Is there some way to run a debug style dump of everything the system is doing when I execute the command? Logs are a good thing... |
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steveb
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| Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 11:29 pm Post subject: |
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You could try to run VMWare with strace.
Or you could try to load the debug version of vmware-vmx (but you would need to tweak the scripts to do that if you want to run vmware on startup with debug info).
cheers
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