FC3 shutdown error with vmware
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Tue May 3 12:10:42 UTC 2005
On Tue, 3 May 2005, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 15:59 +1000, Yuandan Zhang wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have FC3 on HPnx5000 with vmware workstation 4.5.0. When I shutdown
>> the PC, it repeats an error message, in fact, endless,
>>
>> The error message starts after killall process activated
>> Here is the error:
>>
>> unregister_netdevice: waiting for vmnet1 to become free Usage Count = 1
>>
>> The error is endless, I have to press i/o button to hard shutdown.
>>
>> How to fix it?
>
> Yuandan,
>
> I had the same problem. For some reason some of the initscript soft
> links weren't installed. Check to see if you have them all:
>
> # cd /etc/rc0.d (also rc1.d ... rc6.d)
> # ls -l *vm*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Mar 20 03:28 K08vmware -> /etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware
>
> You should have K08vmware links in all rcX.d subdirectories except rc5.d
> where you should have a link named S90vmware.
>
> Hope this helps...
The recent any.any patches solve the symlink problem, but that may or may
not help. Some people reported that it solved the shutdown problem for
them, others that it did not. I don't think I ever solved the problem
reliably until I installed the VMware v.5 beta. I've since upgraded to
the production VMware v.5 and the problem has not recurred since I left
v.4.5 behind. So far, v.5 works a treat.
--
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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