Category: Linux

I use WMvare Workstation 5 on my home PC under Windows about four months. Once I decided to try it on Linux. Installation of VMware is more or less trivial. First, download VMware Workstation for Linux (I chose RPM) and install it. After that before the first running VMware it should be configured using VMware config script:
vmware-config.pl
But there is the first trick. It needs to build a module for the kernel. Therefore the kernel header should be installed:
yum install kernel-devel
On my PC kernel headers were placed in the /lib/modules/2.6.16-1.2080_FC5/build/include. But as I understand the script cannot parse correctly the latest kernel’s version names. You have to apply this simple patch to the vmware-config.pl:
--- vmware-config.pl.old 2005-12-15 21:55:24.000000000 -0800
+++ vmware-config.pl 2006-02-04 16:53:06.000000000 -0800
@@ -1969,8 +1969,8 @@
. ' -E - | ' . shell_string($gHelper{'grep'}) . ' '
. shell_string($pattern));
chomp($header_page_offset);
- $header_page_offset =~ s/^$pattern \(?0x([0-9a-fA-F]{8,}).*$/$1/;
- if ($header_page_offset =~ /[0-9a-fA-F]{8,}/) {
+ if ($header_page_offset =~ /^$pattern \(?0x([0-9a-fA-F]{8,})/) {
+ $header_page_offset = $1;
# We found a valid page offset
if (defined($gSystem{'page_offset'}) and
not (lc($header_page_offset) eq lc($gSystem{'page_offset'})))

Continue reading Installation VMvare Workstation on Fedora 5

My epic work with upgrade to Fedora Core 5 finished successful this morning. As I wrote there was only one problem after upgrade – Embperl gave a Segmentation fault. Gerald spent more than two weeks tried to resolve this. During this time he released a new version of Embperl which was adapted for latest version of Apache. But it still didn’t work properly. Funally, Gerald gave me a right point to solve the problem. He suspected that the sources and binaries of Apache were mixed up i. e. there belonged to different versions. I removed the package httpd_devel and deleted the directory /usr/include/httpd manually (some Apache headers remained there). Then I reistalled httpd_devel and recompiled Embperl. After that Embperl started work correctly!
Well it’s time to make an upgrade at home 🙂

After upgrade to Fedora Core 5 I spent one-two days to resolve some problems. First were are the same as after upgrade to Fedora Core 4. Sure I supposed that Fedora is too crude and it was my choice 🙂

1. Embperl
New Feodra contains latest Apache and mod_perl. As I understand Embperl development team didn’t follow them. That’s why after upgrade Embperl-based web applications give Segmentation fault. There is a patch to compile correctly Embperl with Apache 2.2 (I got it from Embperl maillist and just formatted it and stored in the separate files). But it didn’t solve my problem. I sent stackbacktrace to Gerald Richter but he didn’t answer me yet.

2. SugarCRM

PHP applications worked fine after upgrade except SugarCRM. It gave me Segmentation fault after submit the login form. One guy from SugarCRM forum suggested me to replace a new PHP.INI by previous one. After that SugarCRM started work correctly. I don’t know what exactly was wrong with PHP and SugarCRM but I don’t have a time and a desire to dig it.

3. SELINUX

When I run a system utility system-config-securitylevel and tried to disable SELINUX it gave me a following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/system-config-securitylevel/securitylevel.py", line 240, in okClicked
rc = self.apply()
File "/usr/share/system-config-securitylevel/securitylevel.py", line 402, in apply
self.selinuxPage.apply()
File "/usr/share/system-config-securitylevel/selinuxPage.py", line 379, in apply
type=self.getType()
File "/usr/share/system-config-securitylevel/selinuxPage.py", line 371, in getType
return self.types[self.selinuxTypeOptionMenu.get_active()]
IndexError: list index out of range

Following packages should be installed to avoid this error and run system-config-securitylevel correctly:

• selinux-policy-targeted
• selinux-policy-strict