I can confirm this bug in Kubuntu Feisty (except for the "ALSA lib" part) Output of "sudo apt-get install vmware-player" sudo apt-get install vmware-player Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: vmware-player-kernel-modules vmware-player-kernel-modules-2.6.20-15 The following NEW packages will be installed vmware-player vmware-player-kernel-modules vmware-player-kernel-modules-2.6.20-15 0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/13.6MB of archives. After unpacking 36.5MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package vmware-player-kernel-modules-2.6.20-15. (Reading database ... 128052 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking vmware-player-kernel-modules-2.6.20-15 (from .../vmware-player-kernel-modules-2.6.20-15_2.6.20.5-15.20_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package vmware-player-kernel-modules. Unpacking vmware-player-kernel-modules (from .../vmware-player-kernel-modules_2.6.20.15.14_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package vmware-player. Unpacking vmware-player (from .../vmware-player_1.0.2-2_i386.deb) ... Setting up vmware-player-kernel-modules-2.6.20-15 (2.6.20.5-15.20) ...
Setting up vmware-player-kernel-modules (2.6.20.15.14) ... Setting up vmware-player (1.0.2-2) ... Now configuring VMware Player. (This may take some time...) Configuring a bridged network for vmnet0. Configuring a NAT network for vmnet8. Probing for an unused private subnet (this can take some time)... The subnet 172.16.109.0/255.255.255.0 appears to be unused. Configuring a host-only network for vmnet1. Probing for an unused private subnet (this can take some time)... The subnet 172.16.215.0/255.255.255.0 appears to be unused. Starting VMware services: Virtual machine monitor done Virtual ethernet done Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 failed Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 (background) done Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 (background) done NAT service on /dev/vmnet8 done invoke-rc.d: initscript vmware-player, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing vmware-player (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: vmware-player E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) -- Failed to install vmware-player with synaptic on Ubuntu 7.04 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/115276 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs