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Note that if you need to uninstall VMWare Player (if you installed it from the Ubuntu repositories) you must select “Mark for Complete Removal” in Synaptic otherwise the vmware init scripts won’t get removed and the init process will logging errors (not fatal though) at startup. I think this is bug, I should probably raise it in launchpad.

Update: make sure your also completely remove the /etc/vmware directory and all files beneath it as well. The player uninstall process leaves this directory intact with the ‘locations’ file in it. When I tried to install VMWare Server it spotted that these files existed and though that it was already installed.