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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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