From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 24 8: 0: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1B6637B400 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 08:00:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3OEv5er016079; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 10:57:05 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200204241457.g3OEv5er016079@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Manuel Hendel Cc: dochawk@psu.edu, FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: vmwware2 - could not get interface address for vmnet1: ... In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 24 Apr 2002 09:13:11 +0200." <20020424071311.GA9028@partagas.easygolucky.de> From: dochawk@psu.edu Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 10:57:05 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG manuel mentioned, > > > There was no instance after I closed the vmware window the normal way. > > > > yes, but something may still be locked. vmware has done this to me a > > couple of time s . . > > OK. So what do you mean with the extrem solution? Shell I deinstall > vmware an try to remove everything vmware comes with, reboot and > reinstall it after that? yep. I removed everything but the files in my home directory. The reboot is a paranoid attempt to avoid any lingering buffers, memories, locks, etc. I'm sue there's a better way to do this, but it worked for me in a crunch. Now that I think of it: I believe you need to reinstall vmware *every* time you compile your kernel, too . . . hawk -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message