I was trying to install Workstation on Ubuntu 12.04 but it hangs, the last thing that i see getting updated in the log files under /tmp/vmware-root is the following
[root@vmware-root]#cat vmware-authdlauncher-5836.log
2013-06-11T18:12:13.643-08:00| authdlauncher| I120: Log for VMware Authentication Daemon Launcher pid=5844 version=9.0.1 build=build-894247 option=Release
2013-06-11T18:12:13.643-08:00| authdlauncher| I120: The process is 64-bit.
2013-06-11T18:12:13.643-08:00| authdlauncher| I120: Host codepage=UTF-8 encoding=UTF-8
2013-06-11T18:12:13.643-08:00| authdlauncher| I120: Host is Linux 3.2.0-39-generic Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
2013-06-11T18:12:13.503-08:00| authdlauncher| I120: Msg_Reset:
2013-06-11T18:12:13.503-08:00| authdlauncher| I120: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "/usr/lib/vmware/settings": No such file or directory.
2013-06-11T18:12:13.503-08:00| authdlauncher| I120: ----------------------------------------
2013-06-11T18:12:13.503-08:00| authdlauncher| I120: PREF Optional preferences file not found at /usr/lib/vmware/settings. Using default values.
2013-06-11T18:12:13.503-08:00| authdlauncher| I120: Msg_Reset:
2013-06-11T18:12:13.503-08:00| authdlauncher| I120: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "/home/mts/smit/.vmware/config": No such file or directory.
2013-06-11T18:12:13.503-08:00| authdlauncher| I120: ----------------------------------------
2013-06-11T18:12:13.503-08:00| authdlauncher| I120: PREF Optional preferences file not found at /home/mts/smit/.vmware/config. Using default values.
2013-06-11T18:12:13.642-08:00| authdlauncher| I120: Msg_Reset:
2013-06-11T18:12:13.642-08:00| authdlauncher| I120: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "/home/mts/smit/.vmware/preferences": Permission denied.
2013-06-11T18:12:13.642-08:00| authdlauncher| I120: ----------------------------------------
2013-06-11T18:12:13.642-08:00| authdlauncher| I120: PREF Failed to load user preferences.
2013-06-11T18:12:13.666-08:00| authdlauncher| I120: SOCKET creating new listening socket on port 34307
2013-06-11T18:12:13.666-08:00| authdlauncher| I120: listening on port 902
2013-06-11T18:12:13.666-08:00| authdlauncher| I120: launching authd at /usr/sbin/vmware-authd
2013-06-11T18:12:13.666-08:00| authdlauncher| I120: starting poll loop
Can someone please help me with it?
I have uploaded all the log files, please let me know if some more info is needed.
Thanks in advance!!