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After the first installation, please:

1) install the appropriate headers package(s) for your installed kernel(s): linux-headers for default kernel, linux-lts-headers for LTS kernel...

2) reboot or load vmw_vmci and vmmon kernel modules (modprobe -a vmw_vmci vmmon)

3) Enable the services you need (using .service units to activate them during boot or .path units to activate them when a VM is started) :

• vmware-networks: to have network access inside VMs

• vmware-usbarbitrator: to connect USB devices inside VMs

@Eike Thank you! I'm just like you, a normal user... I have no idea what actually cause the problem. Hope someone can report or find the actual issue.

@microdou: you, sir or madam, are fcking awesome. fixed this for me.

are you going to report this issue back to the maintainer of "librsvg" package or would it be more adequate to report it to the libRSVG team?

I get the same error after updating some packages. I finally pinpointed it to a troublesome package called librsvg. librsvg-2:2.44.0-1 caused the error. Downgrading to a prior one librsvg-2:2.42.6-1 solves the issue. you may find the package in /var/cache/pacman/pkg/

I have the same error as Eike. I reverted to the prior kernel and it did not fix the problem. I wish I had kept better track of the updates applied this morning.

This update breaks my installation - but it might be VMware itself, I'm not sure:

thread '<unnamed>' panicked at 'called `Option::unwrap()` on a `None` value', libcore/option.rs:345:21
note: Run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` for a backtrace.
fatal runtime error: failed to initiate panic, error 5´´

For people who have the same issue than @silenx, you should only have to reload the module (modprobe -r vmmon && modprobe vmmon) to fix it.

Hello, issue on updating/install 14.1.3-1 :

2018-08-15T23:21:43.780+02:00| vmx| I125: Msg_Post: Error

2018-08-15T23:21:43.780+02:00| vmx| I125: [msg.vmmonPosix.badDriver] You have an incorrect version of the 'vmmon' kernel module.

EDIT: Resolved with a clean reinstall ( include dependencies ) issue was with dkms and old 14.1.2 probably not removed correctly

can not installing!

==> Making package: vmware-workstation 14.1.2-1 (Sat 04 Aug 2018 08:32:19 AM +0430)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Downloading VMware-Workstation-Full-14.1.2-8497320.x86_64.bundle...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:--  0:00:08 --:--:--     0
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:--  0:00:16 --:--:--     0
100  2201  100  2201    0     0     84      0  0:00:26  0:00:26 --:--:--   507
  -> Found bootstrap
  -> Found vmware-vix-bootstrap
  -> Found config
  -> Found pam.d-vmware-authd
  -> Found configure-initscript.sh
  -> Found vmware-environment.sh
  -> Found config.xml
  -> Found datastores.xml
  -> Found environments.xml
  -> Found proxy.xml
  -> Found vmware-hostd-certificates.service
  -> Found vmware-hostd.service
  -> Found vmware-networks-configuration.service
  -> Found vmware-networks.service
  -> Found vmware-usbarbitrator.service
  -> Found dkms.conf.in
  -> Found Makefile
  -> Found vmmon.patch
  -> Found vmnet.patch
==> Validating source files with sha256sums...
    VMware-Workstation-Full-14.1.2-8497320.x86_64.bundle ... FAILED
    bootstrap ... Passed
    vmware-vix-bootstrap ... Passed
    config ... Passed
    pam.d-vmware-authd ... Passed
    configure-initscript.sh ... Passed
    vmware-environment.sh ... Passed
    config.xml ... Passed
    datastores.xml ... Passed
    environments.xml ... Passed
    proxy.xml ... Passed
    vmware-hostd-certificates.service ... Passed
    vmware-hostd.service ... Passed
    vmware-networks-configuration.service ... Passed
    vmware-networks.service ... Passed
    vmware-usbarbitrator.service ... Passed
    dkms.conf.in ... Passed
    Makefile ... Passed
    vmmon.patch ... Passed
    vmnet.patch ... Passed
==> ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check!
==> ERROR: Makepkg was unable to build vmware-workstation.
==> Restart building vmware-workstation ? [y/N]
==> -------------------------------------------
==> 

@buzo I did that by pacman -S linux-headers.

In fact, this command will install the version 4.17.3-1 linux-headers. This version is not 4.17-2-1 that vmware expected.

And the command yaourt -S vmware-workstation seems to download the right version. I can find it in the path /usr/lib/moudules/.

NowG: Have you installed linux-headers?