12 usual Workstation upgrade disaster. Upgrade process is completely broken.

Is not surprised at all. Been here before over and over. Is there an update of the workstation then it is best to avoid it altogether.  However, like a fool, I fell for the trap and thought to myself "it is not totally fail this time".  Wrong again.

I will say that I have a full suite of VMware in the office and servers ESXi 5.5 and vSphere and the entire cluster of good things and it's a great enterprise class software. The WorkStation product has been pretty darn cool in the last decade but I learned, or should have understood now, once you have it work never touch or update. Never. Just don't.

So I have WorkStation 12 Pro installed on a Red Hat Enterprise 6.8 machine which has terabytes of storage in mirror and 32 GB of memory with a collection of AMD Opteron processors, and it's a real workhorse that is running VMware WorkStation for years. I had every major release since WorkStation 5 and I go through this process once every few years. The dreaded disaster, called "update".  I made the mistake and fell for it and now of course, I installed the VMware Workstation 12.1.1 update and it does not start. It is fried.

What I see:

# /etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware start

Starting VMware services:

Virtual machine monitor [FAILURE]

Virtual machine communication interface [FAILURE]

VM communication interface socket family [FAILURE]

Block the system files [OK]

Virtual Ethernet [FAILURE]

[OK] VMware authentication daemon

Pretty much fried.

Now I here full installation package:

# ls-l downloads.

Total 733524

-rw - r - r-. 1 root root 372089606 9 Jun 23:15 VMware-Workstation-Full - 12.0.0 - 2985596.x86_64.bundle

-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 379031143 9 June 23:20 VMware-Workstation-Full - 12.1.1 - 3770994.x86_64.bundle

Clearly, I ran the 12.1.1 complete bundle here and he made all the right noises and done all the right things and I restarted the whole machine to not see that the inability to start the vmware services. No idea why. No paper anywhere. No information.  Any failure.

Now comes the really hard to swallow part of this bitter pill. While I have the support of enterprise-class full ESXi environment at the office that you can not even buy all support for workstation. Nope. You are in the cold and good luck.

So what's the next step here?

Is there a detailed somewhere log file?

Is there an error beyond stupid blind 'FAILURE '?

Hint anyone?

Problem solved by a de-install workstation 12.1.1 completes:

# vmware - Installer - u vmware-workstation

Then restart the whole machine and the re - install Workstation 12.0 as well:

# sh./VMware-Workstation-Full-12.0.0-2985596.x86_64.bundle--console

Extract the VMware Installer... done.

You must accept the end-user VMware Workstation license agreement to

continue.  Press ENTER to continue.

VMWARE END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT

.

.

.

Do you agree? [Yes/No]: Yes

Enter the license key. (optional) You can enter this information later.

[xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx]:

The product is ready to be installed.  Press Enter to start

installation or Ctrl-C to cancel.

Installation of VMware VMX 12.0.0

Configuration of... Traceback (most recent call changed):

File "/ tmp/vmis.13Bc0C/install/vmware-installer/python/lib/logging/handlers.py", line 73, to issue

If self.shouldRollover (record):

File "/ tmp/vmis.13Bc0C/install/vmware-installer/python/lib/logging/handlers.py", line 146, in shouldRollover

MSG = "%s\n" % self.format (record)

File "/ tmp/vmis.13Bc0C/install/vmware-installer/python/lib/logging/__init__.py", line 630, in the format

return fmt.format (record)

File "/ tmp/vmis.13Bc0C/install/vmware-installer/python/lib/logging/__init__.py", line 421, in the format

s = self._fmt % record.__dict__

Installation of VMware Workstation 12.0.0

Configuration of...

[######################################################################] 100%

Installation was successful.

#

Then make a simple stop of VMware:

stop /etc/init.d/vmware-workstation-server #.

Could not find administrative user. Error 126.

Stop server workstation: fact

stop /etc/init.d/vmware-USBArbitrator #.

[OK]

stop /etc/init.d/vmware #.

Stopping VMware services:

[OK] VMware authentication daemon

VM communication interface socket family [OK]

Virtual machine communication interface [OK]

Virtual machine monitor [OK]

Block the system files [OK]

# /etc/init.d/vmware start

Starting VMware services:

Virtual machine monitor [OK]

Virtual machine communication interface [OK]

VM communication interface socket family [OK]

Block the system files [OK]

Virtual Ethernet [OK]

[OK] VMware authentication daemon

Shared Memory available [OK]

Oh golly gee... look... This works.  The 12.1.1 update is trash.

@

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