On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Cyber Source wrote: > I have the same relationship problem with haldaemon and vmware, that's > why I posted originally. I initially thought it was a timing sequence > thing on boot, it says it is starting haldaemon but when I check after > it boots up, it's not running. If I restart haldaemon after the pc comes > up, all is ok to reboot the machine, no hangs. However, I cannot shut > the pc down, then it hangs. I then noticed that there is no script for > vmware in rc.0, so I made a link for vmware in rc.0 and it can then shut > down but then hangs at the end (shuts all down but does not power off). > This only happens with AMD cpus and can then be corrected with acpi=off > in the grub line, not needed with Intel cpus, or so I have seen. Bitter > sweet when the new releases come out, exciting and yet a pain to work > out the bugs, lol. So far, it is working after the following steps: (1) Install VMwareWorkstation-4.5.2-8848.i386.rpm. Do *not* install vmware-any-any-update84. (2) Run vmware-config.pl to build modules for the running kernel. (3) Run "chkconfig vmware reset" to create the proper symlinks. (4) Things appear to work (so far). Note that "service vmware status" lies about whether vmmon and vmnet modules are insmodded, but functionality doesn't appear to be affected. So the problem appears to have been in both the original RPM (improper symlinks) and the update84 (something else broken). I'll report back if I see any more problems, otherwise, I think it's solved. I'll see what VMware newsgoups have to say about fixing the next update. > > Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > >On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Paul Howarth wrote: > > > > > > > >>On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 15:46 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > >> > >> > >>>On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Cyber Source wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>>Dan Anderson wrote: > >>>> > >>>> For me, > >>>> > >>>>chkconfig --add vmware > >>>> > >>>>worked. Looks like they forgot to add a link to rc0.d when they did > >>>>the initscripts. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>Interesting. I did a fresh install of VMware and applied the > >>>vmware-any-any-update84 patch (and copied /dev/vm* to /etc/udev). All > >>>links are there (although the rc5.d and rc6.d links are absolute and the > >>>others are relative). This doesn't seem to affect the behavior. > >>> > >>> > >>My experience has been that copying /dev/vm* to /etc/udev/devices after > >>running vmware-config.pl was sufficient to get > >>VMwareWorkstation-4.5.2-8848 working, and that applying vmware-any-any- > >>update84 actually broke things. > >> > >> > > > >I'm beginning to think so. I'm going to reinstall without the any-any > >patch. On the other hand, the any-any patch is not the cause of the > >unregister_netdevice error--I applied it hoping it would help with that, > >and it seems to have only made things worse. > > > >I turned off the vmware service and haldaemon stopped crashing. Not sure > >yet if that's related to the patch or the original problem. > > > > > > > > -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
