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Written by m4r3k and tagged by openSUSE.

Currently I work in one big international corporation (I think name is not really important) and thing is I am Net App platform specialist and we have some VMware images with Data ONTAP OS so I don’t need real access to testing Net App device for experiments. But I could not start VMWare player (new VMWare server with webinterface only suck!) so I tried to debug it a little bit, I used strace and I find out it crashing right after looking up for binary precompiled modules.

open("/usr/lib/vmware/modules/binary/bld-2.6.5-7.155.29-x86_64default-SuSE9.1/properties", O_RDONLY) = 11
read(11, "UtsRelease 2.6.5-7.155.29-defaul"..., 1024) = 143
read(11, "", 881)                       = 0
close(11)                               = 0
open("/usr/lib/vmware/modules/binary/bld-2.4.21-27.EL_x86_64-smp-RHEL3/properties", O_RDONLY) = 11
read(11, "UtsRelease 2.4.21-4.ELsmp\nModVer"..., 1024) = 139
read(11, "", 885)                       = 0
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV +++

So I thought I could try to remove such a directory and… voila VMWare player is now up and running so if you have same issue with VMWare player 2.5.1 build-126130 try this command and it will probably solve your issue…

mv /usr/lib/vmware/modules/binary /usr/lib/vmware/modules/binary.old
vmware-modconfig --console --install-all