VMWare Workstation Error Message Causing VMWare to Not Load

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williamjonah · Post by **williamjonah** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 4:24 am

I just emerged vmware-workstation, and ran the vmware-config.pl. After running the config file, and setting up the networking and everything, the config successfully completes, and says to run "vmware" .. When I run vmware, I get an error saying that I need to run vmware-config.pl. It seems to be a neverending cycle. Can someone help?

Headrush · Post by **Headrush** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 4:48 am

Did you add vmware script to default runlevel?

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rc-update add vmware default

And if you have the file /etc/vmware/not_configured, remove it, and then restart.

williamjonah · Post by **williamjonah** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 11:36 pm

Okay, I added vmware to my rc-update, then I removed not_configured, restarted the computer, and the not_configured came back. Both times (before and after the reboot), I got this output while trying to run vmware after doing what you said and running the vmware-config.pl...

/usr/bin/ldd: line 157: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: cannot execute binary file
/usr/bin/ldd: line 167: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: cannot execute binary file
ldd: /lib/ld-linux.so.2 exited with unknown exit code (126)
/opt/vmware/workstation/lib/lib/wrapper-gtk24.sh: line 95: /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/bin/vmware: cannot execute binary file
/usr/bin/ldd: line 157: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: cannot execute binary file
/usr/bin/ldd: line 167: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: cannot execute binary file
ldd: /lib/ld-linux.so.2 exited with unknown exit code (126)
/opt/vmware/workstation/lib/lib/wrapper-gtk24.sh: line 95: /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/bin/vmware: cannot execute binary file

Can you help with that?

Headrush · Post by **Headrush** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 11:41 pm

Something is messed up on your system, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to chase this one down.
Hopefully someone with better understanding of libraries and linking can help.

williamjonah · Post by **williamjonah** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 12:17 am

Do i need to manually do anything to the kernel before i install vmware?

Headrush · Post by **Headrush** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 12:34 am

williamjonah wrote:Do i need to manually do anything to the kernel before i install vmware?

No.

williamjonah · Post by **williamjonah** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 4:44 am

So playing around a little bit, I noticed that my ldd is hosed up.. does anyone know anything about fixing this? Here are the errors.

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localhost roberts # ldd /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/bin/vmware
/usr/bin/ldd: line 157: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: cannot execute binary file
/usr/bin/ldd: line 167: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: cannot execute binary file
ldd: /lib/ld-linux.so.2 exited with unknown exit code (126)

roberts@localhost ~ $ ls -la /lib/ld-linux.so.2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Nov 20 14:01 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 -> ../lib32/ld-linux.so.2

roberts@localhost ~ $ ls -la /lib32/ld-linux.so.2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Nov 20 14:01 /lib32/ld-linux.so.2 -> ld-2.3.5.so

roberts@localhost ~ $ ls -la /lib32/ld-2.3.5.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 90616 Jul 27 21:34 /lib32/ld-2.3.5.so

roberts@localhost ~ $ file /lib32/ld-2.3.5.so
/lib32/ld-2.3.5.so: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), stripped
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Any help is appreciated.

irish · Post by **irish** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 10:42 pm

Yeah me too, exactly the same

irish · Post by **irish** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 11:57 pm

The solution for this is to enable the support in the kernel for IA32 emulation and IA32 a.out support under Executable file formats / Emulations