VMware issue

[marc]

David Vincent said...
> marc wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > VMware server is, for the most part, working fine. I have Windows 2000, 
> > various Linux incantations and some 3rd-party VMs all running - it's a 
> > marvelous thing
> > 
> > However, whenever, I reboot, and then try to run a VM, VMware server 
> > fails to load the VM with:
> > 
> >   Unable to change virtual machine power state. The process exited with 
> >   an error: End of error message.
> > 
> > Which is rather uninformative.
> > 
> > Now, if I:
> > 
> >   aptitude reinstall vmware-server
> > 
> > then things start working as normal.
> > 
> > Can anyone help? Thanks?
> > 
> 
> Check the permissions on ~/.vmware and the files within.  Do they belong 
> to you or root?

They belong to me. 

> Did you install VM from the Canonical Commercial repo 
> or from the source downloaded from VMWare?

>From the repo via aptitude - hence, why I can

  sudo aptitude reinstall vmware-server

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Cheers,
Marc