On Monday 23 August 2010 04:43:38 am Roger Oberholtzer 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):
/usr/bin/make -C /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only auto-build SUPPORT_SMP=1 HEADER_DIR=/lib/modules/2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop/build/include CC=/usr/bin/gcc GREP=/usr/bin/make IS_GCC_3=no VMCCVER=4.4
Using 2.6.x kernel build system. make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only' make -C /lib/modules/2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. \ MODULEBUILDDIR= modules make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.31.12-0.2-obj/i386/desktop' make -C ../../../linux-2.6.31.12-0.2 O=/usr/src/linux-2.6.31.12-0.2-obj/i386/desktop/. modules CC [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o In file included from /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/./include/compat_kernel.h:23, from /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:25: /usr/src/linux-2.6.31.12-0.2/include/linux/kernel.h:10:20: error: stdarg.h: No such file or directory [and so on]
Since I have done this before, I know that the required packages have been installed. Perhaps as the result of a kernel upgrade, the package that would contain this file is missing? I have these installed:
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.31.12-0.2.1.i586 kernel-default-devel-2.6.31.12-0.2.1.i586 kernel-source-2.6.31.12-0.2.1.noarch kernel-pae-devel-2.6.31.12-0.2.1.i586 kernel-desktop-devel-2.6.31.12-0.2.1.i586 kernel-desktop-2.6.31.12-0.2.1.i586 nfs-kernel-server-1.1.3-21.3.1.i586 linux-kernel-headers-2.6.31-3.4.noarch kernel-debug-devel-2.6.31.12-0.2.1.i586 kernel-syms-2.6.31.12-0.2.1.i586 kernel-firmware-20090821-4.1.noarch kernel-docs-2.6.3-44.4.noarch
Is this file somewhere else?
-- Roger Oberholtzer
OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST
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slightly off topic, but, after using vmwre since the #2 series, finally switched to virtualbox. everything works better and i can even use my vmware virtual machines in vbox:) d. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org