A new security policy where I work was implemented last week. So I had to change both my Linux host's root and user passwords. I'm running VMware Server 2.01-156745 on a CentOS 5.3 machine. I didn't do anything with VMware last week, except bring it up before changing the passwords. I powered down over the weekend. Since I've powered up, today, the VMware infrastructure comes up fine, but the web client silently fails. There don't seem to be any error messages in the /var/log/vmware logs or in /var/log/messages.
I've tried both "service vmware-core restart", vmware-config.pl and rpm -e and then rpm -Uvh to reinstall VMware server.
I never get prompted for a password for root. Obviously, since the web client never comes up, I don't get prompted for my user password.
Does anyone have any ideas?