Yesterday I upgraded my laptop from Kubuntu 12.04LTS to 12.10 “Quantal Quetzal”. One important change here is the move from Linux kernel 3.2 to 3.5. The upgrade went smoothly enough but, upon reboot, I got a kernel panic from one of the vmware workstation modules when it loaded.
To fix, do the following:
After the upgrade, reboot to your 3.2 kernel (hold left shift down during boot to get the GRUB prompt), open a console session and then:
sudo chmod -x /etc/init.d/vmware* sudo reboot
Let your system boot normally this time and you shouldn’t see the kernel panic. Open another console session and then:
cd /tmp wget http://communities.vmware.com/servlet/JiveServlet/download/2103172-94260/vmware9_kernel35_patch.tar.bz2 tar xfj vmware9_kernel35_patch.tar.bz2 cd vmware9_kernel3.5_patch/ sudo ./patch-modules_3.5.0.sh sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/vmware* sudo vmware-modconfig --console --install-all reboot
All done.