Did the mouse become unresponsive right after you ran the vmware_configure.pl or after you ran vmware (after running the configure script)?
vmware grabs your mouse when it is running a virtual machine--in order to release it, you need to press <CTRL><ALT> and release--that should free up the mouse, if that was the problem. On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Richard S. Crawford wrote: > This is in reference to my RH7.1 box that sits at home. A co-worker turned > me on to VMWare and sent me instructions for downloading and installing but > apparently something went dreadfully wrong. Rather than relay the entire > situation again, here's the e-mail I sent to him: > > If anyone has any suggestions, please send them on to me. Help!! > > >Well, I went and installed the rpm for VMWare, and followed the instructions > >that you sent to me. It wouldn't start up at all when I entered > >/usr/bin/vmare, but gave me an error message telling me that I had to run > >/usr/bin/vmware_configure.pl (or something like that), which I did. > > > >Strange things happened after that. My mouse became more or less > >unresponsive (it would move across the screen and could click on things but > >nothing would execute -- I couldn't even click the "log out" button when I > >shut down). Now, when I boot the machine, I get the following error: > > > >/home contains a file system with errors, check forced. > >/home: > >Unattached inode 288672 > > > >/home: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY > > (i.e., without -a or -p options) > >/u2: clean, 11/1376256 files, 43201/2749115 blocks > > > >[FAILED] > > > >*** An error occured during the file system check > >*** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot > >*** whne you leave the shell. > >Give root password for maintenance. > >(or type Control-D for normal startup): > > > > > >This strikes me as kind of bad. I think I must have done something wrong > >when running vmware_configure.pl. > > > >Silly me, I also didn't have my install disk of Windows 2000 to install on > >the virtual drive that the computer had set up. But that's a separate > >issue. > > > >I'm going to go through all my normal channels: a brother-in-law who helped > >me put this computer together in the first place, several discussion groups > >and mailing lists, and the tons of documentation that are out there... but > >am I right in thinking that I may have to reinstall Linux? At any rate, > >I'll let you know what the end result is. Heh. > > > >Talk to you later. > > > >Richard > > > Sliante, > Richard S. Crawford > > http://www.mossroot.com > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > AIM: Buffalo2K ICQ: 11646404 Y!: rscrawford > "It is only with the heart that we see rightly; what is essential is > invisible to the eye." --Antoine de Saint Exup�ry > > "Push the button, Max!" > -- R. Douglas Barbieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.dooglio.net
