vmware server 2 won't start

[pg001]

I followed The Perfect Desktop - Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) howto, everything went smooth, exept for the vmware, I'm getting a "503 Service Unavailable" when I try to open it on my browser.

When I did this, I got these results:



~$ /etc/init.d/vmware start
Starting VMware services:
Virtual machine monitor failed
Virtual machine communication interface done
Virtual ethernet failed
Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 done
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 (background) done
DHCP server on /dev/vmnet1 failed
Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 (background) done
DHCP server on /dev/vmnet8 failed
NAT service on /dev/vmnet8 failed
touch: cannot touch `/etc/vmware/not_configured': Permission denied
chmod: cannot access `/etc/vmware/not_configured': No such file or directory
/etc/init.d/vmware: line 616: /etc/vmware/locations: Permission denied

[falko]

Try
sudo /etc/init.d/vmware start

[gumrol]

I have the same issue, the web browser returns:
"503 Service Unavailable"

I've installed VMWare server 2 on a Linux Intrepid Install, all services start ok:
Starting VMware services:
Virtual machine monitor done
Virtual machine communication interface done
Virtual ethernet done
Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 done
VMware Server Authentication Daemon (background) done
Shared Memory Available done
Starting VMware management services:
VMware Server Host Agent (background) done
VMware Virtual Infrastructure Web Access
Starting VMware autostart virtual machines:
Virtual machines done

I have an Apache Install, and am wondering if the 2 webservers are clashing. I stopped apache just to check, also no luck. I really am a bit lost, because I don't find many posts on this issue. Any help would be appreciated.

[falko]

What's the output of netstat -tap?

[gumrol]

Hi Falko

There was a large output, but I guess we're looking for the relevant ports, here is some of the output:

(Not all processes could be identified, non-owned process info
will not be shown, you would have to be root to see it all.)
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name
tcp 0 0 *:902 *:* LISTEN -
tcp 0 0 localhost:mysql *:* LISTEN -
tcp 0 0 *:8333 *:* LISTEN -
tcp 0 0 *:www *:* LISTEN -
tcp 0 0 localhost:8307 *:* LISTEN -
tcp 0 0 localhost:ipp *:* LISTEN -
tcp 0 0 *:36921 *:* LISTEN 5737/skype
tcp 0 0 *:8222 *:* LISTEN -

[falko]

Can you run
configure-vmware.pl as root again?