On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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On Saturday, 2010-01-23 at 10:10 -0500, Lucky Leavell wrote:
I started to comment the line above out (in YaST) but was asked if I really wanted to do that since it was a system supplied entry. Opinions?
Just try! If it doesn't work, undo. No permanent damage can be done, AFAIK.
I did, restarting VMware afterwards. Now I get this after attempting to login: The server was unable to process your log in request. Please check with your server administrator. Here is the /var/log/vmware/hostd.log: Log for VMware Server, pid=18317, version=2.0.2, build=build-203138, option=Release, section=2 [2010-01-23 13:10:51.339 'App' 140425199732464 info] Current working directory: /var/log/vmware [2010-01-23 13:10:51.339 'Handle checker' 140425199732464 info] Setting system limit of 2048 [2010-01-23 13:10:51.340 'Handle checker' 140425199732464 info] Set system limit to 2048 [2010-01-23 13:10:51.340 'App' 140425199732464 info] Trying blklistsvc [2010-01-23 13:10:51.341 'App' 140425199732464 info] Trying cimsvc [2010-01-23 13:10:51.341 'App' 140425199732464 info] Trying directorysvc [2010-01-23 13:10:51.341 'App' 140425199732464 info] Trying hostsvc [2010-01-23 13:10:51.352 'NetworkProvider' 140425199732464 info] Unable to load hardware info file /etc/sysconfig/hwconf [2010-01-23 13:10:51.352 'NetworkProvider' 140425199732464 info] Retrieving ip address failed for vboxnet0 [2010-01-23 13:10:51.359 'NetworkProvider' 140425199732464 info] Ioctl SIOCGIFHWADDR failed for nic vmnet8 [2010-01-23 13:10:51.360 'NetworkProvider' 140425199732464 info] Active ftp is 1 [2010-01-23 13:10:51.360 'NetworkProvider' 140425199732464 info] Allowanyoui is 1 [2010-01-23 13:10:51.360 'NetworkProvider' 140425199732464 info] udptimeout is 60 [2010-01-23 13:10:51.380 'NetworkProvider' 140425199732464 info] Ioctl SIOCGIFHWADDR failed for nic vmnet1 [2010-01-23 13:10:51.445 'Hostsvc::AutoStartManager' 140425199732464 info] VM autostart configuration: /etc/vmware/hostd/vmAutoStart.xml [2010-01-23 13:10:52.094 'Locale' 140425199732464 info] Locale subsystem initialized from /usr/lib/vmware/hostd/locale/ with default locale en. [2010-01-23 13:10:52.095 'ResourcePool ha-root-pool' 140425199732464 info] Resource pool instantiated [2010-01-23 13:10:52.095 'ResourcePool ha-root-pool' 140425199732464 info] Refresh interval: 60 seconds [2010-01-23 13:10:52.096 'HostsvcPlugin' 140425199732464 info] Plugin initialized [2010-01-23 13:10:52.096 'App' 140425199732464 info] Trying httpnfcsvc [2010-01-23 13:10:52.096 'App' 140425199732464 info] Trying internalsvc [2010-01-23 13:10:52.097 'App' 140425199732464 info] Trying nfcsvc [2010-01-23 13:10:52.097 'Nfc' 140425199732464 info] Breakpoints disabled [2010-01-23 13:10:52.098 'Libs' 140425199732464 info] Using system libcrypto, version 9080AF [2010-01-23 13:10:52.100 'Nfc' 140425199732464 info] File Services initialized fmgr([N6NfcSvc14NfcFileManagerE:0x40f97f8]) [2010-01-23 13:10:52.100 'App' 140425199732464 info] Trying ovfmgrsvc [2010-01-23 13:10:52.101 'App' 140425199732464 info] Trying partitionsvc [2010-01-23 13:10:52.101 'App' 140425199732464 info] Trying proxysvc [2010-01-23 13:10:52.101 'Proxysvc' 140425199732464 info] Proxy config filepath is /etc/vmware/hostd/proxy.xml [2010-01-23 13:10:52.102 'Proxysvc' 140425199732464 panic] Another process is listening on the proxy port. [2010-01-23 13:10:52.102 'Proxysvc' 140425199732464 panic] Please make sure other instances of hostd are not running The next to last entry looked suspicious because I had just stopped/restarted vmware (service vmware stop/start), so: linux-lm5l:/var/log/vmware # ps -ef | grep hostd root 10882 1 0 Jan22 ? 00:00:08 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-hostd -a -d -u /etc/vmware/hostd/config.xml root 18615 17465 0 13:16 pts/2 00:00:00 grep hostd linux-lm5l:/var/log/vmware # kill -9 10882 Finally, after stopping/starting vmware once again: [2010-01-23 13:21:09.047 'Proxysvc Req00001' 140377692190992 warning] Exception while processing request: Could not find host address for localhost: Unknown host [2010-01-23 13:21:19.077 'Proxysvc Req00002' 140377690601744 warning] Connection to server localhost:8308 failed with error Could not find host address for localhost: Unknown host. Retrying... I have the latest VMware Server 2 User Guide and there is no mention of IPv6. Also, why is it trying port 8308 when 8222/8333 were specified in the coniguration? Here is netstat -pal output: linux-lm5l:/var/log/vmware # netstat -pal 8222 | grep vmware tcp 0 0 *:ideafarm-door *:* LISTEN 19322/vmware-authdl tcp 0 0 *:8333 *:* LISTEN 19458/vmware-hostd tcp 0 0 nil:8307 *:* LISTEN 19458/vmware-hostd tcp 0 0 *:8222 *:* LISTEN 19458/vmware-hostd unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 316116 19458/vmware-hostd /var/run/vmware/root_0/1264270843732121_19458/ha-nfc-fd unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 316127 19458/vmware-hostd /var/run/vmware/root_0/1264270843732121_19458/ha-nfcssl-fd unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 316425 19458/vmware-hostd /var/run/vmware/root_0/1264270843732121_19458/hostd-vmdb-fd unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 316129 19458/vmware-hostd /var/run/vmware/proxy-webserver unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 316433 19458/vmware-hostd /var/run/vmware/proxy-mob unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 316048 19458/vmware-hostd Any ideas? (other than start over with VirtualBox which is looking better with each passing day!) Thank you, Lucky Leavell -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org