I am running VMware player 15.5 in Kubuntu, 4-18.0-25 kernel. I recently replaced the motherboard and processor and to my surprise, the VM Windows 10 machine will not launch. It dies almost immediately, with the following error log:
2019-10-12T21:07:29.537-05:00| usbArb| I125: DICT tag.miscConfig = "configvm.htm"
2019-10-12T21:07:29.537-05:00| usbArb| I125: DICT tag.usbConfig = "devices_usb.htm"
2019-10-12T21:07:29.537-05:00| usbArb| I125: DICT tag.displayConfig = "configvm_display-problems.htm"
2019-10-12T21:07:29.537-05:00| usbArb| I125: DICT tag.tools = "vmtools.htm"
2019-10-12T21:07:29.537-05:00| usbArb| I125: USBArbRuleStore: Loading device rules from rules file.
2019-10-12T21:07:29.537-05:00| usbArb| I125: VMware USB Arbitration Service Version 18.7.0
2019-10-12T21:07:29.537-05:00| usbArb| I125: USBGL: USB Sysfs found at /dev/bus/usb
2019-10-12T21:07:29.537-05:00| usbArb| I125: USBArb: Attempting to connect to existing arbitrator on /var/run/vmware/usbarbitrator-socket.
2019-10-12T21:07:29.537-05:00| usbArb| I125: SOCKET creating new socket, connecting to /var/run/vmware/usbarbitrator-socket
2019-10-12T21:07:29.537-05:00| usbArb| I125: SOCKET connect failed, error 2: No such file or directory
2019-10-12T21:07:29.537-05:00| usbArb| I125: USBArb: No other USB arbitrator instance is currently running.
2019-10-12T21:07:29.537-05:00| usbArb| I125: USBArb: listening socket 12 created successfully
2019-10-12T21:07:29.537-05:00| usbArb| I125: USBArb: adding listening socket 12 to poll queue
2019-10-12T21:07:35.695-05:00| usbArb| I125: USBArb: new socket connection estibalished: socket 4
2019-10-12T21:07:35.695-05:00| usbArb| I120: USBArb: new client 556BB2185CB0 created, socket 4 added to poll queue
2019-10-12T21:07:35.929-05:00| usbArb| I125: USBArb: Client 24715 connected (version: 8)
2019-10-12T21:07:39.145-05:00| usbArb| I120: USBArb: pipe 4 closed by client 7F7DA4B6F720
2019-10-12T21:07:39.145-05:00| usbArb| I120: USBArb: removing client 556BB2185CB0: pid=24715, pipe=4
2019-10-12T21:07:39.145-05:00| usbArb| I125: USBArb: Client 24715 disconnected
2019-10-12T21:09:25.370-05:00| usbArb| I125: USBArb: new socket connection estibalished: socket 4
2019-10-12T21:09:25.370-05:00| usbArb| I120: USBArb: new client 556BB2186200 created, socket 4 added to poll queue
2019-10-12T21:09:25.370-05:00| usbArb| I125: USBArb: Client 24945 connected (version: 8)
2019-10-12T21:09:25.370-05:00| usbArb| I125: USBArb: closing listening socket 12
2019-10-12T21:09:25.370-05:00| usbArb| I120: USBArb: removing client 556BB2186200: pid=24945, pipe=4
2019-10-12T21:09:25.370-05:00| usbArb| I125: USBArb: Client 24945 disconnected
2019-10-12T21:09:25.370-05:00| usbArb| I120: USBArb: usb-arbitrator exit normally
I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling player, tinkering with the settings for this VM, nothing seams to help. I have manually launched the USBArbitrator ( /etc/init.d/vmware-usbarbitrator)
Any help of ideas are appreciated.
Cheers,
--Mark
