Package: linux-headers-2.6.18-3-686 Version: 2.6.18-7 Severity: important When I try to compile vmware modules (as always with a new kernel) I get a strange error:
# /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl Making sure services for VMware Workstation are stopped. ... ... ... Trying to find a suitable vmmon module for your running kernel. None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Workstation is suitable for your running kernel. Do you want this program to try to build the vmmon module for your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)? [yes] Using compiler "/usr/bin/gcc". Use environment variable CC to override. What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] The directory of kernel headers (version @@VMWARE@@ UTS_RELEASE) does not match your running kernel (version 2.6.18-3-686). Even if the module were to compile successfully, it would not load into the running kernel. What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-3/include The path "/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-3/include" is an existing directory, but it does not contain at least one of these directories "linux", "asm", "net" as expected. In fact, /usr/src/linux/include should work, since: $ ll /usr/src/ total 1707 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root src 27 2006-12-12 13:21 linux -> linux-headers-2.6.18-3-686/ drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 520 2006-07-24 17:35 linux-headers-2.6.15-1 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 544 2006-07-24 17:35 linux-headers-2.6.15-1-686-smp drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 432 2006-12-12 12:27 linux-headers-2.6.18-3 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 544 2006-12-12 12:27 linux-headers-2.6.18-3-686 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 72 2006-12-12 12:27 linux-kbuild-2.6.18 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2003-04-08 23:27 modules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1743387 2006-12-04 03:04 nvidia-kernel-source.tar.gz drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 168 2003-11-03 13:21 rpm ¿So? I understand that the problem is that the version of the headers does not match the running kernel, which, in this case, is an important bug since: $ uname -a Linux xxxxxx 2.6.18-3-686 #1 SMP Mon Dec 4 16:41:14 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux I have always been able (till kernel 2.6.15, I have updated from kernel 2.6.15 to 2.6.18 as shipped by debian etch) to compile vmware. ¿Is this the fault of linux-headers-2.6.18-3-686 or maybe linux-kbuild-2.6.18? Thanks a lot for your time and efforts! -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) (ignored: LC_ALL set to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Versions of packages linux-headers-2.6.18-3-686 depends on: ii gcc-4.1 4.1.1-21 The GNU C compiler ii linux-headers-2.6.18-3 2.6.18-7 Common header files for Linux 2.6. ii linux-kbuild-2.6.18 2.6.18-1 Kbuild infrastructure for Linux 2. linux-headers-2.6.18-3-686 recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
