This bug also affects me in the exact same way as described in this
thread (by another user):
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2122637
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Correction: kernel modules fail to build, not the vm-tools themselves.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1152378
Title:
FTBFS on 3.5.0-25-generic
To manage
Logs attached, specific errors during compile on 3.5.0-23-generic inside
of ESXi 5.0 hypervisor are:
/var/lib/dkms/open-vm-tools/2011.12.20/build/vmhgfs/filesystem.c:392:4: error:
implicit declaration of function ‘d_alloc_root’
[-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
Installing the binary from Raring fixed it, but is still broken with
Precise's package.
root@app01:~# dpkg -i open-vm-dkms_2013.04.16-1098359-0ubuntu1_all.deb
Selecting previously unselected package open-vm-dkms.
(Reading database ... 81610 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking
