Hi,
I have fresh 64 bit CentOS 5.4 installation. I installed vmware server 2.0.2 on it and i experience some randomweb gui crashes. Even while idle.
The only log I've found is: /var/log/vmware/webAccess/proxy.log which contains something like this:
[2010-01-15 14:24:28,102,ContainerBackgroundProcessor[StandardEngine[Catalina]]<=>,TreeNavPropertySet] Error cleaning up TreeNavPropertySet
com.vmware.core.UnknownRemoteException: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
at com.vmware.vim.managedobject.View.destroyView(View.java:31)
at com.vmware.vim.adapter.builder.TreeNavPropertySet.destroy(Unknown Source)
at com.vmware.vim.adapter.builder.TreeNavPropertySet.onRemove(Unknown Source)
at com.vmware.vim.adapter.builder.PropertySetManagerImpl.rmvPropertySet(Unknown Source)
at com.vmware.vim.adapter.builder.PropertySetManagerImpl.rmvAllPropertySets(Unknown Source)
at com.vmware.vim.adapter.builder.PropertySetManagerImpl.discard(Unknown Source)
at com.vmware.vim.adapter.builder.PropertySetContextImpl.destroy(Unknown Source)
at com.vmware.vim.adapter.RequestProcessor.destroy(Unknown Source)
at com.vmware.vim.adapter.broker.ServerBrokerImpl.cleanup(Unknown Source)
at com.vmware.webaccess.listener.SessionListener.sessionDestroyed(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.catalina.session.StandardSession.expire(StandardSession.java:702)
at org.apache.catalina.session.StandardSession.isValid(StandardSession.java:592)
at org.apache.catalina.session.ManagerBase.processExpires(ManagerBase.java:682)
at org.apache.catalina.session.ManagerBase.backgroundProcess(ManagerBase.java:667)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.backgroundProcess(ContainerBase.java:1316)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.processChildren(ContainerBase.java:1601)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.processChildren(ContainerBase.java:1610)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.processChildren(ContainerBase.java:1610)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.run(ContainerBase.java:1590)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
at org.apache.axis.AxisFault.makeFault(AxisFault.java:101)
at org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPSender.invoke(HTTPSender.java:154)
at org.apache.axis.strategies.InvocationStrategy.visit(InvocationStrategy.java:32)
at org.apache.axis.SimpleChain.doVisiting(SimpleChain.java:118)
at org.apache.axis.SimpleChain.invoke(SimpleChain.java:83)
at org.apache.axis.client.AxisClient.invoke(AxisClient.java:165)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invokeEngine(Call.java:2784)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2767)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2443)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2366)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:1812)
at com.vmware.vim.VimBindingStub.destroyView(VimBindingStub.java:31784)
at com.vmware.vim.managedobject.View.destroyView(View.java:27)
... 19 more
Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:333)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:195)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:182)
at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:366)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:520)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor70.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at org.apache.axis.components.net.DefaultSocketFactory.create(DefaultSocketFactory.java:153)
at org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPSender.getSocket(HTTPSender.java:191)
at org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPSender.writeToSocket(HTTPSender.java:404)
at org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPSender.invoke(HTTPSender.java:138)
... 30 more
[2010-01-15 14:24:28,140,ContainerBackgroundProcessor[StandardEngine[Catalina]]<=>,ServiceConnection] java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
I'm running similar configutation successfully - the only difference is that Linux host is not fresh 5.4 but upgraded from 5.0 throu all previus versions up to 5.4 and vmware server the same: from 2.0.0 up ti 2.0.2
Oh, btw : Guests are unaffected. All I need to do is to restart vmware-mgmt services.