FC3 shutdown error with vmware

Alexander Apprich a.apprich at science-computing.de
Tue May 3 06:24:12 UTC 2005


Yuandan,

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?

if you really have vmware workstation 4.5.0 I would recommend getting
version 4.5.2. Also, get the vmware-any-any-update90.tar.gz patch.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> yuandan
> 
> 
Hth

Alex




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