On 12/11/05, Allan Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At Sun, 11 Dec 2005 23:33:31 +0100 Jan Callewaert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 2005/12/11, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> On 12/11/05, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Hello, the vmware workstation daemon has always seemed a bit touchy, > >> > but it's being persistent this time. When I run: > >> > > >> > /opt/vmware/workstation/bin/vmware-config.pl > >> > > >> > the daemon is started properly and I can fully use the application. > >> > But when Gentoo tries to start the daemon, 2 of the processes always > >> > fail and vmware-config.pl must be run again for it to start properly. > >> > Even trying to run 'rc' right after a successful completion of > >> > vmware-config.pl fails. > >> > >> When I was using workstation 4.5, I found the best results if you run > >> /etc/vmware/init.d/vmware stop after vmware-config.pl: > >> > >> vmware-config.pl -default > >> /etc/vmware/init.d/vmware stop > >> /etc/init.d/vmware start > >> > >> HTH, > >> -Richard > >> > >> -- > >> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > >> > >> > > > > There is file in the directory /etc/vmware which you have to delete > > after a configure, for some strange reason. It's a blank file, but > > unfortunately I can't remember the filename anymore. Pbb something > > with config in its name. > > I believe it is called "notconfigured" and yes it is zero length.
The file is /etc/vmware/not_configured. The problem is that /etc/init.d/vmware and /etc/vmware/init.d/vmware disagree about whether the daemons are running or not. When you run vmware-config.pl, it starts the daemons by running /etc/vmware/init.d/vmware. Running "/etc/init.d/vmware status" will show the daemons are not running, but trying to start that script will fail because they actually are running. This can result in either the not_configured file being recreated, or simply failing to start some of the services. This also seems to be fixed for the current version of VMWare Workstation. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
