Trying to install VMware-Workstation-Full-e.x.p-1245816.x86_64.bundle hangs on Ubuntu 12.04.1 after printing "Extracting VMware Installer...done." CPU goes up to 100%. nothing happens any more then.
Looking at the process tree:
shows two vmware installer processes, the second one at 99% CPU and looping.
Install never starts and never will finish.
Killing the hanging process gives back two lines:
/tmp/vmis.sZwXMf/install/vmware-installer/vmware-installer: Zeile 56: 16806 Beendet
VMWARE_INSTALLER="$VMWARE_INSTALLER" VMISPYVERSION="$VMISPYVERSION" "$VMWARE_INSTALLER"/vmis-launcher "$VMWARE_INSTALLER"/vmware-installer.py "$@"
For me it looks a lot like the python procedure is calling it self recursively doing the very same things over and over again.
I've tried to remove the installed version of VMware Workstation by hand, but without success: same behavior. Switching languages to "C" does not help either. Seems the installer is broken in some serious way …