Running VMWare 9 and Debian testing (vmware patched for 3.10.5)
Today when starting vmware as myself, the application flashes on the screen and crashes. Runs fine as another user.
renaming my .vmware directory didn't help.
Any clues?
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ss@localhost:~$ /usr/bin/vmware
Logging to /tmp/vmware-ss/vmware-modconfig-5400.log
filename: /lib/modules/3.10-2-amd64/misc/vmmon.ko
supported: external
license: GPL v2
description: VMware Virtual Machine Monitor.
author: VMware, Inc.
depends:
vermagic: 3.10-2-amd64 SMP mod_unload modversions
Aborted
ss@localhost:~$ cat /tmp/vmware-ss/vmware-modconfig-5400.log
2013-08-25T15:09:05.639-05:00| vthread-3| I120: Log for VMware Workstation pid=5400 version=9.0.2 build=build-1031769 option=Release
2013-08-25T15:09:05.639-05:00| vthread-3| I120: The process is 64-bit.
2013-08-25T15:09:05.639-05:00| vthread-3| I120: Host codepage=UTF-8 encoding=UTF-8
2013-08-25T15:09:05.639-05:00| vthread-3| I120: Host is Linux 3.10-2-amd64 Debian GNU/Linux testing (jessie)
2013-08-25T15:09:05.570-05:00| vthread-3| I120: Msg_Reset:
2013-08-25T15:09:05.570-05:00| vthread-3| I120: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "/usr/lib/vmware/settings": No such file or directory.
2013-08-25T15:09:05.570-05:00| vthread-3| I120: ----------------------------------------
2013-08-25T15:09:05.570-05:00| vthread-3| I120: PREF Optional preferences file not found at /usr/lib/vmware/settings. Using default values.
2013-08-25T15:09:05.587-05:00| vthread-3| I120: Msg_Reset:
2013-08-25T15:09:05.587-05:00| vthread-3| I120: [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "/home/ss/.vmware/config": No such file or directory.
2013-08-25T15:09:05.587-05:00| vthread-3| I120: ----------------------------------------
2013-08-25T15:09:05.587-05:00| vthread-3| I120: PREF Optional preferences file not found at /home/ss/.vmware/config. Using default values.
2013-08-25T15:09:05.639-05:00| vthread-3| W110: Logging to /tmp/vmware-ss/vmware-modconfig-5400.log
2013-08-25T15:09:05.672-05:00| vthread-3| I120: Reading in info for the vmmon module.
2013-08-25T15:09:05.672-05:00| vthread-3| I120: Reading in info for the vmnet module.
2013-08-25T15:09:05.672-05:00| vthread-3| I120: Reading in info for the vmblock module.
2013-08-25T15:09:05.672-05:00| vthread-3| I120: Reading in info for the vmci module.
2013-08-25T15:09:05.672-05:00| vthread-3| I120: Reading in info for the vsock module.
2013-08-25T15:09:05.672-05:00| vthread-3| I120: Setting vsock to depend on vmci.
2013-08-25T15:09:05.672-05:00| vthread-3| I120: Created new pathsHash.
2013-08-25T15:09:05.672-05:00| vthread-3| I120: Invoking modinfo on "vmmon".
2013-08-25T15:09:05.674-05:00| vthread-3| I120: "/sbin/modinfo" exited with status 0.
2013-08-25T15:09:05.674-05:00| vthread-3| I120: Invoking modinfo on "vmnet".
2013-08-25T15:09:05.676-05:00| vthread-3| I120: "/sbin/modinfo" exited with status 0.
2013-08-25T15:09:05.676-05:00| vthread-3| I120: Invoking modinfo on "vmblock".
2013-08-25T15:09:05.693-05:00| vthread-3| I120: "/sbin/modinfo" exited with status 0.
2013-08-25T15:09:05.693-05:00| vthread-3| I120: Invoking modinfo on "vmci".
2013-08-25T15:09:05.694-05:00| vthread-3| I120: "/sbin/modinfo" exited with status 0.
2013-08-25T15:09:05.694-05:00| vthread-3| I120: Invoking modinfo on "vsock".
2013-08-25T15:09:05.696-05:00| vthread-3| I120: "/sbin/modinfo" exited with status 0.