Package: open-vm-tools Version: 2009.12.16-217847-1 Severity: important At system start-up the open-vm-tools daemon don't start while the vm modules are correctly loaded. After some test I observed that without X the open-vm-tools don't work:
server:~# /etc/init.d/open-vm-tools restart Stopping open-vm guest daemon: vmtoolsd/etc/init.d/open-vm-tools: line 49: kill: (16571) - No such process . Removing open-vm-tools modules: vmhgfs vmmemctl vmsync. Loading open-vm-tools modules: vmhgfs vmmemctl vmsync. Starting open-vm daemon: vmtoolsd. X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. server:~# ps ax|grep vm 21090 ? S< 0:00 [vmmemctl] while with an X11 active environment: server:~# export XAUTHORITY=~user/.Xauthority server:~# /etc/init.d/open-vm-tools restart Stopping open-vm guest daemon: vmtoolsd/etc/init.d/open-vm-tools: line 49: kill: (21099) - No such process . Removing open-vm-tools modules: vmhgfs vmmemctl vmsync. Loading open-vm-tools modules: vmhgfs vmmemctl vmsync. Starting open-vm daemon: vmtoolsd. panama:~# ps ax|grep vm 22697 ? S< 0:00 [vmmemctl] 22706 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/vmtoolsd --plugin-path /etc/vmware-tools/plugins Obviously when finish the ssh session on server and so close the X11 output on my client machine the vmtoolsd daemon dies :-(( -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing-proposed-updates APT policy: (990, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages open-vm-tools depends on: ii libc6 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.4.2-8 GCC support library ii libglib2.0-0 2.22.3-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libicu42 4.2.1-3 International Components for Unico ii libstdc++6 4.4.2-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 Versions of packages open-vm-tools recommends: ii ethtool 6+20091202-1 display or change Ethernet device ii open-vm-source 2009.12.16-217847-1 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: ii open-vm-toolbox 2009.12.16-217847-1 tools and components for VMware gu -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
