Did you try running the following after the /etc/init.d/vmware stop?
run the command line login as root
VMWARE_DEBUG=yes vmware-config.pl
Post the output from the above vmware-config.pl
Did you try running the following after the /etc/init.d/vmware stop?
run the command line login as root
VMWARE_DEBUG=yes vmware-config.pl
Post the output from the above vmware-config.pl