vmware 5.5.1-19175: Unable to build the vmmon module.

[someone12345]

I recently upgraded from 2.6.15 to 2.5.16 and fail to build the vmmon module. Actually I don't even see what's going wrong i just fails

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server ~ # vmware-config.pl
Making sure services for VMware Workstation are stopped.

 * ERROR:  "vmware" has not yet been started.

Configuring fallback GTK+ 2.4 libraries.

Trying to find a suitable vmmon module for your running kernel.

None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Workstation is suitable for your
running kernel.  Do you want this program to try to build the vmmon module for
your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)? [yes]

Using compiler "/usr/bin/gcc". Use environment variable CC to override.

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel? [/lib/modules/2.6.16-reiser4-tcn/build/include]

Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.

Building the vmmon module.

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.16-reiser4-tcn/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.16-reiser4'
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.h:20,
                 from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:49:
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/./include/compat_wait.h:37:5: warning: "VMW_HAVE_EPOLL" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/./include/compat_wait.h:43:5: warning: "VMW_HAVE_EPOLL" is not defined
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.h:20,
                 from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:49:
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/./include/compat_wait.h:60: error: conflicting types for 'poll_initwait'
include/linux/poll.h:45: error: previous declaration of 'poll_initwait' was here
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/./include/compat_wait.h:60: error: conflicting types for 'poll_initwait'
include/linux/poll.h:45: error: previous declaration of 'poll_initwait' was here
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:145: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:149: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.16-reiser4'
make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only'
Unable to build the vmmon module.

[possumjc]

I had the same problems. I assume that it has something to do with the 2.6.16 kernel. I just upgraded to gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r2 kernel on AMD64. I upgraded to the ~amd64 version of VMWare-Workstation and it fixed the problem. Hope this helps.

Regards,
Joel

[normski]

I had problems with this as well. The problem began after I emerged kernel-2.6.16-gentoo-r3. After trying several of the suggestions on these forums and Googling, vmware-config.pl was still not working; even though several people said that the any_any_update101 fixed the problem.

In the end I emerged vmware-workstation as normal and extracted the any_any_update101 to a temporary directory and ran the runme.pl script. Looking at the output it claimed to have updated the vmware-config.pl script but all others were up to date. After this running vmware-config.pl built the modules and all is as it should be again.

It would appear to me that there is a problem in the current ebuild; it doesn't patch vmware-config.pl correctly.

[tomga]

I had problems with this as well. The problem began after I emerged kernel-2.6.16-gentoo-r3. After trying several of the suggestions on these forums and Googling, vmware-config.pl was still not working; even though several people said that the any_any_update101 fixed the problem.

In the end I emerged vmware-workstation as normal and extracted the any_any_update101 to a temporary directory and ran the runme.pl script. Looking at the output it claimed to have updated the vmware-config.pl script but all others were up to date. After this running vmware-config.pl built the modules and all is as it should be again.

It would appear to me that there is a problem in the current ebuild; it doesn't patch vmware-config.pl correctly.

can confirm that. after running the runme.pl script, everything builds fine.

[jure1873]

i've had to update to the lastest vmware too. Thanks for sharing your solutions.
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[Randy R]

Can you explain

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I emerged vmware-workstation as normal and extracted the any_any_update101 to a temporary directory and ran the runme.pl script.

how to do this?

I have the error and don't have a clue how to do this.

Thanks

[parsim]

Awesome, thanks for the fix!

For the poster above, here's my step-by-step:

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wget http://mirror.vmmatrix.net/vmware-any-any-update/vmware-any-any-update101.tar.gz
tar xvzf vmware-any-any-update101.tar.gz
cd vmware-any-any-update101
sudo ./runme.pl

Edit: by the way, I got this error with vmware-workstation-4.5.3.19414 after upgrading to the 2.6.16 kernel on AMD64.