I got the same issue,also tried to manually update/reinstall but no luck. {

Hi savanweylyn, I have the same issue.

My version of VMware Player was 12.1.0. I uninstalled it and installed the new one 12.5 but I had the same issue.

I also tried to change the version of the booting kernel thinking that new updates I installed made a new kernel which could explain this VMware Player issue. Unfortunately, I don't succes changing the booting kernel ! I still boot with 4.4.0-3 amd64.

I don't know what else can I do.

For your information, I lauched the same command as you (vmware-modconfig.... all) and I get the same error message.

If someone knows how to solve this issue, we would be very thankful !

SUCCESS !!!

Well, I tried many things and encountered many errors and still have the same error message from VMware but I finally succeed to launch the VMware Player 12.5.

I followed instructions on this page : Page on Kali's forum

It works (for me) while before solving the issus I indicated the path to gcc-5 in the VMware windows and get an error message.

Hope it will be as fine for you as it has been for me !

Edited by savanweylyn at 2016-11-1 11:33

It didn't work for me.
same to sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove gcc-6 and sudo apt-get purge gcc-6

Hi,

After the updates it didn't work for me either (probably default gcc version was set to 6), but actually you don't have to install / remove gcc at all.
VMWare asks for the path to gcc 5.3.1 multiple times, and it looks like as it would be in a loop and doesn't accept the gcc-5 path definition, BUT actually it does accept it.

So, you just have to set the path to gcc-5 multiple times and it should go forward eventually, maybe after 3-4 times.

It worked! Thanks!