vmware player on ubuntu 15.10

I just uploaded to Ubuntu 15.10 and my vmware player is not working anymore.

I tried to follow the solution proposed here and here but it doesn't seem to be enough for me.

When I run vmplayer I get a lot of error messages like

Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "unity-gtk-module": libunity-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

(vmware-modconfig:9701): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "murrine",

At this point it asks me to compile and load several module into the kernel. If I say Install it asks for my password and then gives some more errors like

Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory             
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "overlay-scrollbar"
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "unity-gtk-module"

Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"

(vmware-gksu:9701): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Two different plugins tried to register 'BasicEngineFc'.

(vmware-gksu:9701): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_new: assertion 'G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' failed

(vmware-gksu:9701): Pango-WARNING **: Failed to load Pango module '/usr/lib/vmware/libconf/lib/pango/1.6.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so' for id 'BasicScriptEngineFc'

(vmware-gksu:9701): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Two different plugins tried to register 'BasicEngineFc'.

(vmware-gksu:9701): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_new: assertion 'G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' failed

and then it quits.

What should I do to fix this? I quite a noob, so please try to be as detailed as possible.

UPDATE: If I try to run sudo vmware-modconfig --console --install-all the output is

Stopping VMware services:
VMware Authentication Daemon                                        done
VM communication interface socket family                            done
Virtual machine communication interface                             done
Virtual machine monitor                                             done
Blocking file system                                                done
make: Entering directory '/tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmmon-only'
Using kernel build system.
/usr/bin/make -C /lib/modules/4.2.0-16-generic/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. \
MODULEBUILDDIR= modules
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.2.0-16-generic'
CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.o
CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmmon-only/linux/driverLog.o
CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmmon-only/common/memtrack.o
CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmmon-only/common/apic.o
CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmmon-only/common/vmx86.o
CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmmon-only/common/cpuid.o
/tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1332:1: warning: always_inline function might not be inlina
ble [-Wattributes]
LinuxDriverSyncReadTSCs(uint64 *delta) // OUT: TSC max - TSC min
^
CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmmon-only/common/task.o
/tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c: In function     ‘LinuxDriver_Ioctl’:
/tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:2054:1: warning: the  frame size of 1184 bytes is larger tha
n 1024 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]

}
^
CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmmon-only/common/comport.o
CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmmon-only/common/hashFunc.o
CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmmon-only/common/phystrack.o
CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmmon-only/vmcore/moduleloop.o
LD [M]  /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmmon-only/vmmon.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 1 modules
CC      /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmmon-only/vmmon.mod.o
LD [M]  /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmmon-only/vmmon.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.2.0-16-generic'
/usr/bin/make -C $PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. \
MODULEBUILDDIR= postbuild
make[1]: Entering directory '/tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmmon-only'
make[1]: 'postbuild' is up to date.
make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmmon-only'
make: Entering directory '/tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only'
Using kernel build system.
/usr/bin/make -C /lib/modules/4.2.0-16-generic/build/include/..     SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. \
MODULEBUILDDIR= modules
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.2.0-16-generic'
CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/driver.o
CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/hub.o
CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/userif.o
CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/netif.o
In file included from include/linux/pci.h:35:0,
             from /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/compat_netdevice.h:27,
             from /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/netif.c:43:
include/linux/pci_ids.h:2252:0: warning: "PCI_VENDOR_ID_VMWARE" redefined
#define PCI_VENDOR_ID_VMWARE  0x15ad
^
In file included from /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/net.h:38:0,
             from /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/vnetInt.h:26,
             from /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/netif.c:42:
/tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/vm_device_version.h:56:0: note: this is the location of the previous definition
#define PCI_VENDOR_ID_VMWARE                    0x15AD
^
CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/bridge.o
CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/procfs.o
CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/smac_compat.o
CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/smac.o
In file included from /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/net.h:38:0,
             from /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/vnetInt.h:26,
             from /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/bridge.c:52:
/tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/vm_device_version.h:56:0: warning:   "PCI_VENDOR_ID_VMWARE" redefined
#define PCI_VENDOR_ID_VMWARE                    0x15AD
^
In file included from include/linux/pci.h:35:0,
             from /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/compat_netdevice.h:27,
             from /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/bridge.c:51:
include/linux/pci_ids.h:2252:0: note: this is the location of the previous definition
#define PCI_VENDOR_ID_VMWARE  0x15ad
^
In file included from /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/bridge.c:50:0:
/tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/bridge.c: In function ‘VNetBridgeUp’:
/tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/vmnetInt.h:81:40: error: too few arguments to function ‘sk_alloc’
#   define compat_sk_alloc(_bri, _pri) sk_alloc(&init_net, \
                                    ^
/tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/bridge.c:952:17: note: in expansion of macro ‘compat_sk_alloc’
bridge->sk = compat_sk_alloc(bridge, GFP_ATOMIC);
In file included from /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/compat_sock.h:23:0,
             from /tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/bridge.c:35:
include/net/sock.h:1515:14: note: declared here
struct sock *sk_alloc(struct net *net, int family, gfp_t priority,
          ^
scripts/Makefile.build:258: recipe for target '/tmp/modconfig-    sQDoPN/vmnet-only/bridge.o' failed
make[2]: *** [/tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only/bridge.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
Makefile:1398: recipe for target '_module_/tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only' failed
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.2.0-16-generic'
Makefile:120: recipe for target 'vmnet.ko' failed
make: *** [vmnet.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory '/tmp/modconfig-sQDoPN/vmnet-only'
Unable to install all modules.  See log for details.

Solution 1:

(K)Ubuntu 15.10 with Kernel 4.2.0-17 and VMPlayer 7.1.2:

  1. open a terminal, eg. Konsole
  2. cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
  3. sudo tar -xf vmnet.tar
  4. use your favorite text editor, eg. joe, to edit vmnetInt.h:

sudo joe vmnet-only/vmnetInt.h

  1. in line 82, add a trailing ",1" just as in line 84

    old: PF_NETLINK, _pri, &vmnet_proto)

    new: PF_NETLINK, _pri, &vmnet_proto, 1)

  2. save your changes and add them back into the tar:

sudo tar -uf vmnet.tar vmnet-only/vmnetInt.h

  1. run vmplayer again, it should build now

sudo vmplayer

Solution 2:

This is what I did and it worked for me:

echo /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libglibmm-2.4.so.1 | sudo tee -a /etc/ld.so.conf.d/LD_LIBRARY_PATH.conf

Then run:

sudo ldconfig

So it will stick.

I manually modified my file in order for it to work for me, but found an easier way in the VMware community forums to share here: Workstation 12 on Debian Linux host does not launch, no GUI no error messages.

Hope it helps , as it helped me ;-)

After this you should be able to still use your Icon in the Unity bar, or launch it from a terminal:

vmware

Solution 3:

i tried doing the following for my Ubuntu 15.10 My specifications are:

$ uname -a
Linux Shan-Ubuntu 4.2.0-19-generic #23-Ubuntu SMP Wed Nov 11 11:39:30 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I firstly removed the VMWare Player previously installed using the following lines:

sudo vmware-installer -u vmware-player
sudo vmware-installer -u vmware-player

Then I reinstalled it from the website VMWare Website and since I had a problem of canberra-gtk-module I used:

sudo apt-get install libcanberra-gtk*

and once the download is done, in terminal I run:

vmplayer

with Gtk-Errors which can be completely ignored the VMplayer starts completely.

Hope this helps Shan