vmware breaks sudo!

[Philip Axer]

Hi,
I don't know whether I got it. Do you want to remove vmware, get sudo to 
work or get vmware alive? When does the sudo problem occur, immediatly 
after the finished boot procedure, or after trying to start vmware? Have 
you tried vmware-config.pl afaik it builds some mandatory kernel modules.
I would go on by:
running the config script as sudo-root
if it doesn't build, check if the kernel headers are installed.
Rerun vmware :)

Philip

Oliver Maunder schrieb:

> Hi
>
> I've just tried installing vmware, and something's gone wrong. When I 
> try to run it using /usr/bin/vmware, I get the following message:
>
>   vmware is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured
>   for this system. To (re-)configure it, invoke the following command:
>   /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl.
>
> That's not a great problem - I can live without vmware for now. The 
> problem is that sudo doesn't work! If I type (in a console) "sudo 
> gedit", the password prompt never appears. The problem persists until 
> I reboot the PC - usually with the reset button, because the shutdown 
> process stalls.
>
> Can anyone give me some pointers on how to narrow down the issues?
>
> Thanks
>
> Olly