With Red Hat Enterprise Linux on top of VMware, why do I get "unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free. Usage count=2" messages when attempting to reboot or install VMware Tools?
Issue
The following error message occurs when trying to install vmware tools (this prevents installation) or when attempting to reboot the system (this prevents the reboot but a hard reset allows the system to boot):
unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free. Usage count=2
RPC: error 101 connecting to server xyz
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
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