Hardy Upgrade Killed vmware server

[Rob Wright]

On Friday 09 May 2008 09:52:46 Eugene Tretyak wrote:
> Follow this instrucations:
> http://howtoforge.com/vmware-server-on-ubuntu8.04

Those were the instructions that I'd followed previously. It fails the same 
way using either the 116 or the 117.


noexit at uranus:~/Downloads/vmware-any-any-update116$ sudo ./runme.pl
Updating /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl ... now patched
Updating /usr/bin/vmware ... No patch needed/available
Updating /usr/bin/vmnet-bridge ... No patch needed/available
Updating /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx ... No patch needed/available
Updating /usr/lib/vmware/bin-debug/vmware-vmx ... No patch needed/available
VMware modules in "/usr/lib/vmware/modules/source" has been updated.
 
------ lots of stuff taken out-----

make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-16-generic'
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config2/vmnet-only/driver.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config2/vmnet-only/hub.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config2/vmnet-only/userif.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config2/vmnet-only/netif.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config2/vmnet-only/bridge.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config2/vmnet-only/filter.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config2/vmnet-only/procfs.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config2/vmnet-only/smac_compat.o
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config2/vmnet-only/smac_linux.x386.o
  LD [M]  /tmp/vmware-config2/vmnet-only/vmnet.o
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST 1 modules
  CC      /tmp/vmware-config2/vmnet-only/vmnet.mod.o
  LD [M]  /tmp/vmware-config2/vmnet-only/vmnet.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-16-generic'
cp -f vmnet.ko ./../vmnet.o
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config2/vmnet-only'
Unable to make a vmnet module that can be loaded in the running kernel:
insmod: error inserting '/tmp/vmware-config2/vmnet.o': -1 File exists
There is probably a slight difference in the kernel configuration between the
set of C header files you specified and your running kernel.  You may want to
rebuild a kernel based on that directory, or specify another directory.

For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems, please
visit our Web site at "http://www.vmware.com/download/modules/modules.html" 
and
"http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/prebuilt_modules_linux.html".

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