VMWare is your problem. VMWare requires their own kernel modules so any kernel updates will require you to rebuild those VMWare modules. Generally there is a script that ships with VMWare that will automate this (DKMS is another option so that this is automated on every kernel upgrade).
This is also true of Virtualbox, but the installation likely would have taken care of that for you. If you had just reinstalled VMWare that would have also likely solved your problem as well. If you can try to stick with solutions that are either maintained upstream (like KVM) or provide packages (even better repositories) for your distro (like VirtualBox). Binary blobs are bad, with Oracle and VMWare being two of the three worst offenders for crappy kernel modules (I am not just talking philosophically, the quality of these binary blobs is usually suspect at best). Not patching is a really bad idea. Generally I have found the 14.04 LTS edition to be pretty solid and safe to patch. All of my Linux (and Windows for that matter) boxes patch automatically with no user intervention. The days of avoiding patching are far behind us. On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 11:01 PM, Noah Tellin <thevillageg...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've had it running for a while now, but don't dare do another update. > > 8 gigabytes of RAM > Lenovo ThinkPad t420i > > > VMware just crashes when I try to open the appliance. VirtualBox > dumped me at the UEFI shell, until I stopped the machine and unchecked > EFI in the Motherboard tab of the System settings. Now the appliance > runs and I can do actual documentation review. > > I'd like to do an upgrade some day. I wonder what broke it before? > > On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 1:00 PM, <clug-talk-requ...@clug.ca> wrote: > > Send clug-talk mailing list submissions to > > clug-talk@clug.ca > > > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > > clug-talk-requ...@clug.ca > > > > You can reach the person managing the list at > > clug-talk-ow...@clug.ca > > > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > > than "Re: Contents of clug-talk digest..." > > > > > > Today's Topics: > > > > 1. urgent: non-booting os (Noah Tellin) > > 2. Re: urgent: non-booting os (Sam Khangyi) > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Message: 1 > > Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 21:41:39 -0600 > > From: Noah Tellin <thevillageg...@gmail.com> > > To: clug-talk@clug.ca > > Subject: [clug-talk] urgent: non-booting os > > Message-ID: > > <CADZ-tmmifnCa16XG2P= > ca4r-kudexokvkxam6qhvr6f3ph+...@mail.gmail.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > > > To run an appliance that is 64 bit in a virtual machine, I did a major > > backup and after much downloading installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for AMD64 > > alongside. The first installation would not run. The next did, once. > > Now, after an update and restart, I get only kernel panics. > > > > I am doing this for a chance at a job, and I cannot afford more delays. > > > > Any suggestions other than another installation and no update, or > > downloading another 64 bit ISO and trying that? > > > > Note, this is my primary laptop and a full wipe/install is not an > > option right now. > > > > Ralph > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Message: 2 > > Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 21:50:36 -0600 > > From: Sam Khangyi <khan...@shaw.ca> > > To: CLUG General <clug-talk@clug.ca> > > Subject: Re: [clug-talk] urgent: non-booting os > > Message-ID: <3885700.Pje7RGNRUD@bogi> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > > > Did you disable UEFI booting in your bios? And is your laptop 64 bit? > > :: trying to get the story straight: > > > > 1.:you have a 64 bit applience that you need to run inside a > virtual box. > > 2.:therefor you downloaded a 64 bit ubuntu to run the vm on the > virtual > > box running inside the 64 bit ubuntu. > > 3.: your other partition is a windows ... > > > > > > q1a: is your windows 64 bit? > > q1b: is your laptop 64 bit ? > > q2a: how much ram does your laptop has? > > > > > > > > On May 18, 2015 Monday 21:41:39 Noah Tellin wrote: > >> To run an appliance that is 64 bit in a virtual machine, I did a major > >> backup and after much downloading installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for AMD64 > >> alongside. The first installation would not run. The next did, once. > >> Now, after an update and restart, I get only kernel panics. > >> > >> I am doing this for a chance at a job, and I cannot afford more delays. > >> > >> Any suggestions other than another installation and no update, or > >> downloading another 64 bit ISO and trying that? > >> > >> Note, this is my primary laptop and a full wipe/install is not an > >> option right now. > >> > >> Ralph > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> clug-talk mailing list > >> clug-talk@clug.ca > >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > >> **Please remove these lines when replying > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Subject: Digest Footer > > > > _______________________________________________ > > clug-talk mailing list > > clug-talk@clug.ca > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > End of clug-talk Digest, Vol 126, Issue 5 > > ***************************************** > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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