Description of problem: When I try to open VMware Workstation nothing happends. No program will appeare on the desktop, Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): VMware Workstation 12.5.7 How reproducible: Klick on VMware Workstation icon Steps to Reproduce: 1. Klick on VMware Workstation icon 2. 3.
Summary: Can't open VMware Workstation afterupgrade to Mageia 6 => Can't open VMware Workstation after upgrade to Mageia 6
Thanks for your report. How did you upgrade? Using a classical iso? * If so, please attach /root/drakx/report.bug from that install which has the time stamp of the upgrade, after compressing with xz * If you started the upgrade by clicking on the mgaapplet upgrade notification, then please find the path to where the journalctl logs are stored, that is on the / partition of your install, in /var/log/journal/<some very long hexadecimal string>/ and run, as root (assuming you installed yesterday, _change_ the dates if that was Saturday or today): journalctl -D /path/to/logs/ --since=2017-07-16 --until=2017-07-17 > journal.txt compress with xz and attach journal.txt.xzq
Assignee: bugsquad => mageiatoolsCC: (none) => marja11Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
minus the q at the end
Created attachment 9502 [details] Asked file /root/drakx/report.bug
First i tried to use mgaapplet but doesn't successed. Then I burned a DVD and done a classical upgrade.
(In reply to Jan Pihlgren from comment #3) > Created attachment 9502 [details] > Asked file /root/drakx/report.bug I discover that I sent wrong file. I will send the wright file now.
Created attachment 9503 [details] The correct file asked report.bug.Z created july 17 2017 13:32
I have found a vmware log: vmware-usbarb-15130.log I attache the file.
Created attachment 9530 [details] Vmware logfile
I uninstall Vmware Workstation 12.5 and then installed it again. Result: Still unable to start VMware Workstation.
Created attachment 9565 [details] After trying to start vmware with systemctl Trying to start vmware with command systemctl start vmware.service Then run systemctl status vmware.service Nothing happends, no vmware appears.
Created attachment 9601 [details] Errormessage when try start vmware-workstation-server I tried to use MCC - System to start vmware-workstation-server. The attachment shows the result
thierry, thomas, do you have any ideas about this ?
CC: (none) => mageia, thierry.vignaud, tmb
Still can't start vmware-workstation-server after update systemd [root@Humlan jan]# systemctl start vmware-workstation-server.service Job for vmware-workstation-server.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status vmware-workstation-server.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. [root@Humlan jan]# systemctl status vmware-workstation-server.service ● vmware-workstation-server.service - SYSV: This services starts and stops the Workstation as a Server daemon. Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware-workstation-server; generated; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since tis 2017-08-22 06:13:52 CEST; 41s ago Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8) Process: 11807 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware-workstation-server start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) aug 22 06:13:51 Humlan.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting SYSV: This services starts and stops the Workstation as a Serve aug 22 06:13:52 Humlan.localdomain vmware-workstation-server[11807]: [42B blob data] aug 22 06:13:52 Humlan.localdomain systemd[1]: vmware-workstation-server.service: Control process exited, code=exited s aug 22 06:13:52 Humlan.localdomain systemd[1]: Failed to start SYSV: This services starts and stops the Workstation as aug 22 06:13:52 Humlan.localdomain systemd[1]: vmware-workstation-server.service: Unit entered failed state. aug 22 06:13:52 Humlan.localdomain systemd[1]: vmware-workstation-server.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
So you need to figure out why it fails... As vmware apparently has not really made it systemd aware (they only wrapped a a call their old init.d script in a systemd service file) then systemd cant really do much... try to run "/etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware-workstation-server start" directly to see if it produces any more info when it fails (also check logs if there is any vmware specific logging there) If that does not help, check if there is any debug options in /etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware-workstation-server or what it's actually trying to do in order to figure out where it breaks down
Created attachment 9622 [details] Info about start-error for vmware Mybee this can help understan why vmware does not start. Myself have not enaough knowledges to understand the information.
After much researching I found a workaround to enable VMware Workstation 12 to run on Mageia 6. I documented how to install and apply the workaround here: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Installing_VMware_workstation_12_in_Mageia_6 It seems to be working OK for me. Please can someone else test and confirm if OK?
CC: (none) => paul.blackburn
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CC: (none) => ouaurelienStatus: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => OLD
An up-to-date page for running VMware workstation 12.5.9 on Mageia 7 is: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Installing_VMware_workstation_12.5.9_in_Mageia_7 I am working on updating this method for Mageia 8. I can confirm VMware workstation 12.5.9 runs on the latest beta release of Mga8. Reminder: VMware is commercial virtual machine software. It is not ported to Mageia. It is available for a free 30 day trial use. I only have a license for VMware workstation 12 (to test and verify). It is very likely that the method described in our wiki page will also work for more recent releases of VMware. Kind regards Paul