vmware service not started on boot

Dear all,

my host is a laptop, so it is shutdown and started regularly. recently I upgrade WS from 8 to 9 and since then the vmware service does not start automatically anymore. Since I start my guest on login, it is kind of annoying. It does not seem to be a problem with the modules since starting the service by hand is no problem:

> sudo service vmware status

Module vmmon loaded

Module vmnet loaded

> sudo service vmware start

Starting VMware services:

   Virtual machine monitor                                                       done

   Virtual machine communication interface                               done

   VM communication interface socket family                            done

   Blocking file system                                                            done    

   Virtual ethernet                                                                   done

   VMware Authentication Daemon                                           done

   Shared Memory Available                                                     done

>

The service seems to be set-up properply:

> /sbin/chkconfig | grep vmware

vmware                     2345

vmware-USBArbitrator       2345

vmware-workstation-server  off

> who -r

         run-level 2  2013-05-15 20:18                   last=S

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The scrips in /etc/rcN.d/S20vmware are just links to ../init.d/vmware.

Anyone can tell me, what is going on? With all older versions of VMWS (I think I use it since WS5) this was never an issue.

The host runs Linux Mint Debian Edition.

Thanks and cheers,

                    Riko