Haldaemon and Vmware

[Matthew Saltzman]

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