On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Chris Lieb <chris.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > I tried upgrading VMware server on one of my machines from 1.0.9 to > 2.0.1 today. After the upgrade, I couldn't get any of the modules to > insert (Invalid module format). I decided that I would downgrade back > to vmware-server-1.0.9.156507 and vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r2 so that I > could get the machine back into a working state. > > I keyworded vmware-server-2* and masked !=vmware-modules-1.0.0.15* to > make sure that I'd downgrade the two components of VMware server. I ran > emerge, it listed the two packages as downgrades, and let it run. > Almost immediately it died while starting the build for vmware-modules > with the following error: > > * Could not find a usable .config in the kernel source directory. > * Please ensure that /usr/src/linux points to a configured set of Linux > sources.
Often times these tests are done by looking for the presence of a specific file. It is possible they are looking for a file that exists in other kernel versions but not the particular version you're using. You'd have to check the build scripts from that package to see exactly what file it is looking for in your kernel sources.
