Package: open-vm-tools
Version: 2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1
Severity: normal
Every 30 seconds I am getting two log entries written to syslog:
vmsvc[712]: [ warning] [guestinfo] Failed to get nic info.
vmsvc[712]: [ warning] [guestinfo] Failed to get vmstats.
This makes the /var/log/syslog file grow unnecessarily and tools like
logcheck end up spamming me about the messages.
Apparently the 'nic info' message is produced if open-vm-tools is compiled
using --without-dnet and the 'vmstats' message is produced if open-vm-tools
is compiled using --without-procps.
I can turn these messages off by adding the following to the
/etc/vmware-tools/tools.conf file:
[logging]
vmsvc.level=error
However that would turn off all other warnings so probably isn't a good
default to have.
Possible solutions I can think of to fix this are:
- Demote the message levels for these two messages from warning to debug.
- Link against the appropriate libraries.
Although for amd64 there seems to be specific check to turn off libproc
linking that might be there for a good reason?
I'm sure you can probably think of others.
Regards,
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages open-vm-tools depends on:
ii libc6 2.13-16 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libfuse2 2.8.5-4 Filesystem in Userspace (library)
ii libgcc1 1:4.6.1-4 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.28.6-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libicu44 4.4.2-2 International Components for Unico
ii libstdc++6 4.6.1-4 GNU Standard C++ Library v3
Versions of packages open-vm-tools recommends:
ii ethtool 1:2.6.39-1 display or change Ethernet device
ii open-vm-sour 2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1 Source for VMware guest systems dr
ii zerofree 1.0.1-2 zero free blocks from ext2/3 file-
Versions of packages open-vm-tools suggests:
pn open-vm-toolbox <none> (no description available)
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Jim Barber
DDI Health
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