I tried to repeat this and it was not repeatable with another hardware configuration (and kernel AMD64 2.6.17-10): A8N motherboard with Athlon 64 3200+ CPU and Asus EN7600GS GPU
This first occured with: P5B motherboard with Intel E6300 CPU and Nvidia Quadro NVS280 GPU and kernel i686 2.6.17-10 -- vmware-player pre-installation script returned error https://launchpad.net/bugs/77447 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs