On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 10:46 +0200, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 09:45 +0200, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On 08/23/2010 10:43 AM, Roger Oberholtzer pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
I am trying to start VMware player, and it wants to rebuild it's kernel modules. This has usually worked ok after a kernel update. Unfortunately, it is not working now. The VMware log only contains the kernel command, and not the error messages. So I am doing the same by hand (command is the one vmplayer lists in the log when it tries this):
I wound up having to untar the driver sources in /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source, and adding a link in their various include files as follows:
ln -s /usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.4/include/stdarg.h .
DO NOT MAKE A LINK! MAKE A COPY OF THE FILE!!! It seems that when the vmplayer kernel compiling is finished, it deletes the temp place it unpacked the tar archive. And, this delete seems to have been done in such a way that targets of sym links are deleted! don't see that as an option to 'rm'. But this seems to be what happened. When my one-at-a-time testing of the compiling was finished, I let vmplayer do the whole thing again so any other things were also done. After that, my stdarg.h file was deleted. Had to reinstall gcc44. VMware just keeps biting me... -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org