VMware Player installation

[Thomas Blasejewicz]

Good morning
It's me again. (probably I should be banned from the list for asking so
many stupid questions)

Yesterday I tried and SUCCEEDED(! reason to celebrate!) to install
VMware Player on the PC in my office (xubuntu 14.04).
Today I tried the same thing on a different computer at home.
To the best of my knowledge they should be practically 100% identical:
installation from the same CD at the same time;
almost nothing added by myself (since I never get past the installation
of the OS).

Something that may have caused trouble: the other day I tried to install
VirtualBox (annoying everybody with my problems here),
which resulted in an "aptdaemon" error. I thought / it looked like the
computer had recovered from that one ...

AFTER the installation, which a screen message called a success, I get
the error:
"Unable to run depmod"
"See log /tmp/vmware-root/vmware-modconfig-xxxx.log" where "xxxx"
changes each time I try.

A lot of googling led me again to those endless commands etc. the output
of which I copied below.
Apparently, something with "linux-image-3.13.0-37-generic" is not working.
Synaptic Package Manager those packages ARE installed.
I tried to "reinstall" them. That also gave the below copied error.

Has anybody any idea how to fix this problem?
Thank you.
Thomas

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copy from terminal window:

(synaptic:7550): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_child_watch_add_full: assertion
'pid > 0' failed
(Reading database ... 249973 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack
.../linux-image-3.13.0-37-generic_3.13.0-37.64_i386.deb ...
Done.
Unpacking linux-image-3.13.0-37-generic (3.13.0-37.64) over
(3.13.0-37.64) ...
Examining /etc/kernel/postrm.d .
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postrm.d/initramfs-tools
3.13.0-37-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-37-generic
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postrm.d/zz-extlinux 3.13.0-37-generic
/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-37-generic
P: Checking for EXTLINUX directory... found.
P: Writing config for /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-37-generic...
P: Writing config for /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-36-generic...
P: Writing config for /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-35-generic...
P: Installing debian theme... done.
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postrm.d/zz-update-grub
3.13.0-37-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-37-generic
Setting up linux-image-3.13.0-37-generic (3.13.0-37.64) ...
Running depmod.
Failed to run depmod
dpkg: error processing package linux-image-3.13.0-37-generic (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-3.13.0-37-generic
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up linux-image-3.13.0-37-generic (3.13.0-37.64) ...
Running depmod.
Failed to run depmod
dpkg: error processing package linux-image-3.13.0-37-generic (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-3.13.0-37-generic

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Running depmod.
Failed to run depmod
dpkg: error processing package linux-image-3.13.0-37-generic (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-3.13.0-37-generic
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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As found on Google, I also tried to run the following 2 commands.
Both gave the same error message copied above.

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$ thomas r
sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$ thomas r