Re: upgrade to 2.4.27 kills VMWare?
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Dave Carrigan wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 01:53:33PM +0100, James Cummings wrote:
>
> > Hi, I was running VMWare on kernel 2.4.26 and now
> > that I seem to have apt-get upgrade'd myself into
> > 2.4.27 VMWare won't run.
> >
> > I says I should reconfigure it, but when I do I get the
> > following error:
> > ------------
> > What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your
> > running
> > kernel? [/lib/modules/2.4.27-1-686/build/include]
>
> This is not the location of your kernel headers; it's a best guess by
> vmware, but it's wrong.
>
> You must install the kernel-headers-2.4.27-1-686 package, then you tell
> vmware that your kernel headers are in
>
> /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.27-1-686/include
I had already done all of this.
/lib/modules/2.4.27-1-686/build/ seems to be a symlink to
/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.27-1-686/ so the two are equivalent.
(and I've tried both)
Still same error.
Any other suggestions?
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Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford
James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk
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