From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 20 23:01:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6FCC16A50C for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 23:01:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C09143D5E for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 23:00:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@freebsd.org) Received: from [192.168.0.12] (g4.samsco.home [192.168.0.12]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i6KN6qEA060490; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:06:53 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <40FDA3D9.7070806@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 16:59:37 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Paley References: <200407202355.41867.ben@spooty.net> In-Reply-To: <200407202355.41867.ben@spooty.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=3.8 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on pooker.samsco.org cc: "freebsd -current@" Subject: Re: vmnet.ko missing - but it's there! - vmware and crashes X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 23:01:02 -0000 Ben Paley wrote: > Hello, > > I'm getting a total crash every time I try to run vmware. This is my system: > > bash-2.05b$ uname -a > FreeBSD potato.hogsedge.net 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #0: Tue Jun 22 > 07:07:08 BST 2004 root@potato.hogsedge.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/POTATO > i386 > bash-2.05b$ pkg_info | grep vmware > vmware3-3.2.1.2242_7,1 A virtual machine emulator - a full PC in a window > > For a while I was getting some sort of network error: vmware would start as > long as all the network stuff was disabled, but if I tried to have a > host-only connection (I haven't even bothered trying a bridged connection) it > wouldn't run (that is, vmware itself would run fine, but the virtual machine > wouldn't boot, and I'd get an error message about networking - sorry I didn't > make a note of it). > > So I did > > portupgrade -fR vmware3 > > and after a lot of waiting around I tried again: now I get a complete crash > (can't even change to another terminal and kill x) whenever I try to start > vmware. > > On boot, I get this message: > > kldload: can't load /usr/local/lib/vmware/modules/vmnet.ko: No such file or > directory This message is misleading. It likely means that the vmnet.ko binary failed to link successfully into the kernel due to missing symbols. Look on the system console when this happens and see what it says. > > in amongst all the other system stuff, but I also get this: > > -bash-2.05b# locate vmnet.ko > /usr/local/lib/vmware/modules/vmnet.ko > > even after updating the locate database. > > Any ideas what's going wrong? Recompile the vmnet.ko binary from source and see if that helps. Scott