Fedora cannot log out after installing vmware dkms modules in arch rootful distrobox

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so, since vmware on fedora isn’t good because of modules which requires to reinstall after every kernel update, and mkubeck repo doesn’t have the modules for 17.5.2, decided to use distrobox with arch container to install it from there, it didn’t install there so tried the rootful container, no success, so tried to remove everything and live without vmware
when i try to logout after all of this chaos happen, it doesn’t, i cannot shutdown too but only when i hit the logout option (works fine without attempting to logout)
i have a btrfs snapshot but it doesn’t boot, as it says an error related to grub-core tpm thing, so gave up on this
removing the containers didn’t works, any help appreciated?
my device using inxi -Fzxx

System:
  Kernel: 6.9.7-200.fc40.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
    v: 2.41-37.fc40
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.1.1 tk: Qt v: N/A wm: kwin_wayland dm: SDDM
    Distro: Fedora Linux 40 (KDE Plasma)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Laptop 15s-fq5xxx v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: HP model: 8A20 v: 20.22 serial: <superuser required>
    part-nu: 6W2H2EA#A2N UEFI: AMI v: F.19 date: 07/03/2023
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 13.2 Wh (39.6%) condition: 33.3/41.0 Wh (81.0%)
    volts: 12.4 min: 11.4 model: HP Primary serial: <filter> status: charging
CPU:
  Info: 10-core (2-mt/8-st) model: 12th Gen Intel Core i5-1235U bits: 64
    type: MST AMCP arch: Alder Lake rev: 4 cache: L1: 928 KiB L2: 6.5 MiB
    L3: 12 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 949 high: 3181 min/max: 400/4400:3300 cores: 1: 400
    2: 400 3: 400 4: 400 5: 400 6: 400 7: 2081 8: 400 9: 400 10: 3181 11: 400
    12: 2530 bogomips: 59904
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-UP3 GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics]
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-12.2 ports:
    active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, DP-4, HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0
    chip-ID: 8086:46a8
  Device-2: Chicony HP TrueVision HD Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB
    rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-3:3 chip-ID: 04f2:b75e
  Display: wayland server: Xwayland v: 24.1.0 compositor: kwin_wayland
    driver: X: loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915
    display-ID: 0
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 res: 1920x1080 size: N/A
  API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: iris device: 1 drv: swrast
    surfaceless: drv: iris wayland: drv: iris x11: drv: iris inactive: gbm
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 24.1.2 glx-v: 1.4
    direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel Graphics (ADL GT2)
    device-ID: 8086:46a8 display-ID: :0.0
  API: Vulkan v: 1.3.283 surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland device: 0
    type: integrated-gpu driver: N/A device-ID: 8086:46a8 device: 1 type: cpu
    driver: N/A device-ID: 10005:0000
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Alder Lake PCH-P High Definition Audio
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
    chip-ID: 8086:51c8
  API: ALSA v: k6.9.7-200.fc40.x86_64 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.7 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
    4: pw-jack type: plugin
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8822CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rtw_8822ce v: N/A pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:c822
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Realtek 802.11ac WLAN Adapter driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB
    rev: 1.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-10:4 chip-ID: 0bda:b00c
  Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
    rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: <filter> bt-v: 5.1 lmp-v: 10
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 173.42 GiB (36.4%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: KIOXIA model: N/A size: 476.94 GiB
    speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 41.9 C
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 460.88 GiB used: 172.91 GiB (37.5%) fs: btrfs
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
  ID-2: /boot size: 965.9 MiB used: 500.5 MiB (51.8%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4
  ID-3: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 19 MiB (3.7%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
  ID-4: /home size: 460.88 GiB used: 172.91 GiB (37.5%) fs: btrfs
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
  ID-5: /var size: 460.88 GiB used: 172.91 GiB (37.5%) fs: btrfs
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 7.43 GiB used: 1.61 GiB (21.7%) priority: 100
    dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 50.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
  Memory: total: 8 GiB note: est. available: 7.43 GiB used: 4.36 GiB (58.7%)
  Processes: 358 Power: uptime: 27m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 255
    target: graphical (5) default: graphical
  Packages: pm: flatpak pkgs: 38 Compilers: gcc: 14.1.1 Shell: Zsh v: 5.9
    running-in: kitty inxi: 3.3.34

and yes, this is the default kernel

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:thinking:

  • Installed a Arch Distrobox container to then install VMWare inside and didn’t work?
  • rootful container, also didn’t work? ( what kind ? from Distrobox or Podman, systemd-nspawn ?
  • Tried to remove everything, but when you log out ( of PC? ) you cannot log out ?

Did I summarize this correctly?

Check if the containers are still running, podman ps

podman stop <container> to stop it.

Hmm interesting, have you tried this:

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  • Installed a Arch Distrobox container to then install VMWare inside and didn’t work?

yes because of the modules

  • rootful container, also didn’t work? ( what kind ? from Distrobox or Podman, systemd-nspawn ?

distrobox too, using the --root flag
no containers running

  • Tried to remove everything, but when you log out ( of PC? ) you cannot log out ?

yes, when the logout pop up comes and you confirm logging out, nothing happen, only some apps closes and that’s it

as for the doc, i know about it, but it doesn’t support vmware 17.5.2 yet, only 17.5.1 for now

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Did you try the Podman commands to see your running containers ?

Post the output of podman ps

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> podman ps
CONTAINER ID  IMAGE       COMMAND     CREATED     STATUS      PORTS       NAMES
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