Fedora 42 running VMware Workstation 15.5.7 with segfault

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Hi!VMware Workstation 15.5.7 needs to be installed because of personal needs,but after I finished installing VMware workstation 15.5.7, I get a segfault with vmware.And vmware workstation can’t start.

/usr/bin/vmware: line 105: 46164 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) "$BINDIR"/vmware-modconfig --appname="VMware Workstation" --icon="vmware-workstation"

dmesg messages:

[  897.726474] vmware-modconfi[45446]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f80fb365603 sp 00007ffd50a0d028 error 4 in libc.so.6[148603,7f80fb21d000+16f000] likely on CPU 4 (core 12, socket 0)
[  915.626317] vmware-modconfi[46164]: segfault at 0 ip 00007fb0e6fd2603 sp 00007ffd326fcdd8 error 4 in libc.so.6[148603,7fb0e6e8a000+16f000] likely on CPU 3 (core 12, socket 0)
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Please report the problem to VMware.

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If you are using UEFI/Secure Boot then you need to sign the modules.

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You’ll also likely need patched VMware kernel module sources to run 15.5.7 on any recent Linux kernel. In fact, even the latest VMware Workstation version 17.6.3 won’t run on F42 and the 6.15 kernels without some kind of modification.

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