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KD-120RD
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 Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 3:45 pm Post subject: Yet another Vmware "cannot find valid peer process" |
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Hi
I know there are some threads about this here, but most of them are outdated or do not relate exactly to my problem.
First to note: I had VMware running and it worked (nearly perfect) but now wont boot up _any_ virtual machine.
I do not know what I did to make it not work anymore. Didnt do any kernel upgrades. I am not 100% sure, but it might well be, that vmware worked only till the first reboot of my box.
I am getting the "Unable to change virtual machine power state: Cannot find a valid peer process to connect to." error. vmmon and vmnet modules are loaded.
I upgraded from 6.0.1 (gentoo official) to 6.0.2 (vmware overlay) but it didnt help.
I am clueless. Anyhelp would be very aprechiated. |
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KD-120RD
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| Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 1:27 pm Post subject: |
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Hi I have some new info, I am getting this dmesg ouput when the error message pops up:
| Code: | mtrr: type mismatch for d0000000,10000000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for d0000000,10000000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for d0000000,10000000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for d0000000,10000000 old: write-back new: write-combining
/dev/vmmon[-1069104616]: HV check: anyNotCapable=0 anyUnlocked=1 anyEnabled=1 anyDisabled=0
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000041c
printing eip:
c012bde0
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0002 [#1]
PREEMPT
Modules linked in: vmnet(PF) vmmon(PF) vmblock(P) snd_seq_midi snd_emu10k1_synth snd_emux_synth snd_seq_virmidi snd_seq_midi_emul siimage nvidia(P) snd_emu10k1 snd_rawmidi firmware_class snd_ac97_codec ac97_bus snd_util_mem snd_hwdep k8temp i2c_nforce2 forcedeth
CPU: 0
EIP: 0060:[<c012bde0>] Tainted: PF VLI
EFLAGS: 00013202 (2.6.22-gentoo-r8 #1)
EIP is at down_read+0x0/0x10
eax: 0000041c ebx: f1bcddf8 ecx: 000003f1 edx: f1bcddf8
esi: b7bf1000 edi: 000b7bf1 ebp: 00000000 esp: f1bcddc0
ds: 007b es: 007b fs: 0000 gs: 0033 ss: 0068
Process vmware-vmx (pid: 7633, ti=f1bcc000 task=f1ebc030 task.ti=f1bcc000)
Stack: fa58deec 0000693e 00000000 f1bcded0 00000000 00000042 b7bf1000 ffffffff
fa58ea60 f781b005 f1132a40 f13daeb0 f5288000 00000000 00000042 f5288000
fffffffe 00000000 b7bf1000 fa59983a 000007d9 f370d9c0 f5815240 000007d9
Call Trace:
[<fa58deec>] HostIF_UnmapUserMem+0x4c/0xb0 [vmmon]
[<fa58ea60>] HostIF_LockPage+0x40/0x190 [vmmon]
[<fa59983a>] Vmx86_LockPage+0x5a/0x80 [vmmon]
[<fa58d35a>] cleanup_module+0x10fa/0x1580 [vmmon]
[<c01432de>] generic_file_aio_write+0x5e/0xd0
[<c01c7690>] ext3_file_write+0x30/0xc0
[<c01c7660>] ext3_file_write+0x0/0xc0
[<c015f9ae>] do_sync_readv_writev+0xce/0x110
[<c0128b80>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x50
[<c0162ff9>] cp_new_stat64+0xf9/0x110
[<c01601c2>] do_readv_writev+0x122/0x190
[<c01c7660>] ext3_file_write+0x0/0xc0
[<fa58c750>] cleanup_module+0x4f0/0x1580 [vmmon]
[<c016bf64>] do_ioctl+0x84/0xc0
[<fa58c750>] cleanup_module+0x4f0/0x1580 [vmmon]
[<c016bffc>] vfs_ioctl+0x5c/0x2a0
[<c016026c>] vfs_writev+0x3c/0x50
[<c016c27d>] sys_ioctl+0x3d/0x70
[<c01028ce>] sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0x85
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Code: 08 89 e0 e8 b3 ff ff ff b8 00 ca 9a 3b 8b 4c 24 04 f7 2c 24 01 c8 11 da 83 c4 08 5b c3 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 <ff> 00 79 05 e8 4b c5 28 00 c3 8d b6 00 00 00 00 53 89 c3 8b 03
EIP: [<c012bde0>] down_read+0x0/0x10 SS:ESP 0068:f1bcddc0
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The "BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000041c" line makes we wonder. I am getting this with regards to a different problem of mine (wine + nvidia module)
Does it mean, this bug here is not vmware related? |
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Kollin
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| Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 1:52 pm Post subject: |
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Run a memtest for one night 
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KD-120RD
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| Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 11:16 am Post subject: |
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it wasnt a memory error actually.
something was borked with my kernel. i recompiled (upgraded from -r8 to -r9) and now all my problems are solved  |
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