G'day all,

I'm running Ubuntu 6.06, kernel 2.6.15-27-686.

I get the following message when I try to start a *.vmx file.

Unable to change virtual machine power state: The process exited with an error:
End of error message.

I have checked the log files for /tmp/root/ and get the following info:

Oct 01 16:22:55: vmui| Log for VMware Server pid=8145 version=1.0.1 build=build-29996 option=Release
Oct 01 16:22:55: vmui| Using log file /tmp/vmware-root/ui-8145.log
Oct 01 16:22:55: vmui| HAL04LoadHALLibraries: Could not dlopen libhal.so.0.
Oct 01 16:22:55: vmui| HAL05LoadGlibLibrary: Could not dlopen libdbus-glib-1.so.1.
Oct 01 16:22:55: vmui| HAL05Init: HAL05 Initialized successfully.
Oct 01 16:22:57: vmui| HOSTINFO: Seeing Intel CPU, numCoresPerCPU 1 numThreadsPerCore 1.
Oct 01 16:22:57: vmui| HOSTINFO: This machine has 1 physical CPUS, 1 total cores, and 1 logical CPUs.
Oct 01 16:22:57: vmui| System libcrypto.so.0.9.7 library is older than our library (90707F < 90709F)
Oct 01 16:22:58: vmui| Dlg::GetButtonInfo(): Duplicate GTK icon/label pair: _Stop and Stop
Oct 01 16:22:58: vmui| Dlg::GetButtonInfo(): Duplicate GTK icon/label pair: _Forward and _Forward
Oct 01 16:22:58: vmui| Dlg::GetButtonInfo(): Duplicate GTK icon/label pair: _Information and Information
Oct 01 16:23:37: vmui| VMNetCtlConstruct: no Network Names to list
Oct 01 16:23:37: vmui| VMUIGtkVmdb_LoadDevice: unhandled device class scsiCtlr
Oct 01 16:24:11: vmui| VMNetCtlConstruct: no Network Names to list
Oct 01 16:24:11: vmui| VMUIGtkVmdb_LoadDevice: unhandled device class scsiCtlr
Oct 01 16:24:45: vmui| VMNetCtlConstruct: no Network Names to list
Oct 01 16:24:45: vmui| VMUIGtkVmdb_LoadDevice: unhandled device class scsiCtlr
Oct 01 16:25:24: vmui| vmdbLayout::rpc::Mgr::~Mgr: 1 reqs pending.

Maybe there is someone who can see something here that can help solve this problem.

Many thanks.

John

If you have upgraded your kernel recently then you will need to re-run vmware-config.pl as root to compile the kernel modules again.

Thanks Binary,

I've tried that many times but with no success.

Regards
John

Anyone get a fix for this?

Im having similar problems and busting my back trying to get it working.

Cheers

Ludi

Ludi,

I found the problem with my Ubuntu setup but I didn't post the answer on this forum (but I did here). I notice you regard yourself as a newbie, so I hope you can follow my solution below.

The simple answer to the problem is to change the permissions on a .vmware folder found in the home directory to 'root'. If you know how to do this then it is straightforward.

I don't know what distro you are using, whether it is a gnome based or KDE, so I'll step you through what I did with my Ubuntu (gnome) setup.

1) I ran Nautilus using "sudo nautilus" in the terminal window, i.e. I gave myself root permission to run the file manager program.

2) In Nautilus, I found my way back to "Home" directory and clicked on "Show Hidden Files" found under the View tab in Nautilus. This will show all the hidden files in that directory.

3) Scroll down to the .vmware folder (the leading "." indicates that the folder or file is normally hidden).

4) Right click the mouse and choose the "properties" link.

5) Choose the "permissions" tab and set the folder to "root" access.

6) It won't hurt to change the other folders in there to 'root' access as well.

That is what I did to fix my problem. I hope it helps you too.

Regards
John

Hold on Ludi, I gave you bad advice.

This should read ".....and set the folder to "user-name" permission. Where "user name" is your user name (e.g it might be Ludi).

Sorry for the mistake. I went back and checked what I wrote in the vmware forum and noticed my mistake. Sorry.

Best wishes,

John

Thanks dude, thanks a lot.

I am a noob to this forum but not entirely a noob to linux.

I just went to my home folder

i just ran a

sudo chown -R admin.admin .vmware

problem solved.

thanks again.