[SOLVED] Problems building vmmon module in CentOS

T3RM1NVT0R · 08-03-2011, 02:27 PM

Hello everyone,

I have CentOS 5.5 (Final Release) installed on my netbook. I am trying to configure vmware on this machine. When I run vmware-config.pl it goes smooth until it tries to build vmmon module. It gives me following error when it tries to build vmmon module:

Code:

Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.

Building the vmmon module.

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.el5/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-194.el5-i686'
  CC [M]  /tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:11:
include/linux/kernel.h:10:20: error: stdarg.h: No such file or directory
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:11:
include/linux/kernel.h:147: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘va_list’
include/linux/kernel.h:151: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘va_list’
include/linux/kernel.h:155: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘va_list’
include/linux/kernel.h:162: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘va_list’
include/linux/kernel.h:177: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘va_list’
In file included from include/linux/module.h:21,
                 from /tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:12:
include/linux/marker.h:33: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘va_list’
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/driver.h:20,
                 from /tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:49:
/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/./include/compat_wait.h:37:5: warning: "VMW_HAVE_EPOLL" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/./include/compat_wait.h:43:5: warning: "VMW_HAVE_EPOLL" is not defined
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/driver.h:20,
                 from /tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:49:
/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/./include/compat_wait.h:60: error: conflicting types for ‘poll_initwait’
include/linux/poll.h:62: error: previous declaration of ‘poll_initwait’ was here
/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:145: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:149: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:2048: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘va_list’
/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function ‘LinuxDriverError’:
/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:2050: error: ‘args’ undeclared (first use in this function)
/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:2050: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:2050: error: for each function it appears in.)
/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:2050: error: too many arguments to function ‘vsprintf’
/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function ‘Warning’:
/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:2069: error: ‘va_list’ undeclared (first use in this function)
/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:2069: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘args’
/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:2071: error: implicit declaration of function ‘va_start’
/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:2071: error: ‘args’ undeclared (first use in this function)
/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:2072: error: too many arguments to function ‘LinuxDriverError’
/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:2073: error: implicit declaration of function ‘va_end’
/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function ‘Log’:
/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:2128: error: ‘va_list’ undeclared (first use in this function)
/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:2128: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘args’
/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:2135: error: ‘args’ undeclared (first use in this function)
/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:2136: error: too many arguments to function ‘LinuxDriverError’
/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function ‘Panic’:
/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:2159: error: ‘va_list’ undeclared (first use in this function)
/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:2159: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘args’
/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:2161: error: ‘args’ undeclared (first use in this function)
/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:2162: error: too many arguments to function ‘LinuxDriverError’
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-194.el5-i686'
make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config10/vmmon-only'
Unable to build the vmmon module.

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Execution aborted.

Any help will be appreciated.

weibullguy · 08-03-2011, 02:45 PM

stdarg.h, which is the file it can't find, is provided by gcc. Looks like you need to install gcc or the gcc development package.

T3RM1NVT0R · 08-03-2011, 03:04 PM

Thanks for your reply.

When I run rpm -qa | grep gcc I get the following response:

Code:

# rpm -qa | grep gcc
libgcc-4.1.2-48.el5
gcc-4.1.2-48.el5
gcc-c++-4.1.2-48.el5
gcc44-4.4.0-6.el5

Is there anything else that I should be looking for?

knudfl · 08-03-2011, 04:16 PM

Well, you could check, that the file is present ..

Latest is : gcc-4.1.2-50.el5.i386 ..

/usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.2/include/stdarg.h

T3RM1NVT0R · 08-03-2011, 04:19 PM

Hi knudfl,

Yes, stdarg.h is present under /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.2/include/linux/

knudfl · 08-03-2011, 04:43 PM

Actually, the vmmon module should be present, when VMware is installed:
$ find /lib/modules/2.6.18-238.19.1.el5/ -name "*vmmon*"
/lib/modules/2.6.18-238.19.1.el5/misc/vmmon.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.18-238.19.1.el5/misc/vmmon.o

Installed a few days ago, please see post #3 here
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...help-894451/#3

..

T3RM1NVT0R · 08-04-2011, 02:52 PM

Thank you for your reply knudfl.

I had a look at the post that you mentioned. It is related to installing VMware player whereas I have installed vmware server. Installing part went smoothly without any issues but when I am trying to configure vmware (like network, NAT, host only, Bridge) using vmware-config.pl it is failing.

I am able to find vmmon.o modules but not vmmon.ko modules anywhere.

Please advice.

T3RM1NVT0R · 08-05-2011, 08:08 PM

Hello everyone,

Thank you for your replies.

I finally got it sorted :-) I know the solution that I will put sounds funny but it worked for me. So here is what I did:

1. When I ran rpm -qa | grep gcc it was showing me gcc44, gcc-4.1.2, libgcc-4.1.2 and gcc-c++

2. When I was running vmware-config.pl I noticed at one point it is referring to /usr/bin/gcc for compilation which appears to be fine but I was having doubt that it is referring to some other location.

3. So, I removed gcc-4.1.2 which in turn removed gcc-c++.

4. When I ran vmware-config.pl this time it said that it is unable to find C compiler on my system.

5. I then ran yum install gcc which installed gcc-4.1.2 but it did not install gcc-c++

6. This time when I ran vmware-config.pl it gave me different error which was: gcc: error trying to exec 'cc1plus': execvp: No such file or directory

7. I then ran yum install gcc-c++

8. This time when I ran vmware-config.pl it went smooth and wow!!! I got my vmware configured :-)

What appears to me is that vmware-config.pl was showing that it is using /usr/bin/gcc but was trying to compile using /usr/bin/gcc44 but when I re-installed gcc it became default and things went smooth. May be I am wrong on but it worked for me :-)

I have a small query though. Does removing and re-installing gcc on a production system can affect any other applications? This one I did on my personal system but I just want to be sure if someday I have to do it on a production system.