On Tue, 3 May 2005, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 15:59 +1000, Yuandan Zhang wrote:Hi,
I have FC3 on HPnx5000 with vmware workstation 4.5.0. When I shutdown the PC, it repeats an error message, in fact, endless,
The error message starts after killall process activated Here is the error:
unregister_netdevice: waiting for vmnet1 to become free Usage Count = 1
The error is endless, I have to press i/o button to hard shutdown.
How to fix it?
Yuandan,
I had the same problem. For some reason some of the initscript soft links weren't installed. Check to see if you have them all:
# cd /etc/rc0.d (also rc1.d ... rc6.d) # ls -l *vm* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Mar 20 03:28 K08vmware -> /etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware
You should have K08vmware links in all rcX.d subdirectories except rc5.d where you should have a link named S90vmware.
Hope this helps...
The recent any.any patches solve the symlink problem, but that may or may not help. Some people reported that it solved the shutdown problem for them, others that it did not. I don't think I ever solved the problem reliably until I installed the VMware v.5 beta. I've since upgraded to the production VMware v.5 and the problem has not recurred since I left v.4.5 behind. So far, v.5 works a treat.
-- Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
