From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 20 21:33:04 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A01116A4CE for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 21:33:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [198.92.228.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08B9E43D41 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 21:33:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from [198.92.228.34] (racerx.makeworld.com [198.92.228.34]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1C9B6144; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 16:32:56 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <40FD8F88.8000104@makeworld.com> Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 16:32:56 -0500 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (X11/20040718) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Paley References: <200407202209.14039.ben@spooty.net> In-Reply-To: <200407202209.14039.ben@spooty.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-makeworld.com-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-makeworld.com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: racerx@makeworld.com cc: "freebsd -questions@" Subject: Re: Your 3rd and last chance to help me with vmware X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 21:33:04 -0000 Ben Paley wrote: > Hello everybody, > > If no-one responds this time I'll get the hint, please excuse me for > reposting, I'm just going out of my mind! > > 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 > > 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? > > Thanks a lot, > Ben Why are you using CURRENT? Don't you know that you can expect things to break, not work, and overall see the end of the world as you know it? Well - maybe not the latter. Perhaps you might be better served running a STABLE branch instead of an Alpha? Things might work, and work better. Now, This post of yours ought to go to the CURRENT list. -- Best regards, Chris -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ClamAV virus dat updated: Tue Jul 20 2004 at 03:02:52 daily.cvd updated (version: 415, sigs: 1033, f-level: 2, builder: ccordes)