** Summary changed: - vmware-user doesn't autostart + SRU: vmware-user doesn't autostart
** Description changed: + The version of open-vm-tools in Intrepid includes a vmware-user.desktop + file that is intended to automatically start vmware-user on login, but + it doesn’t work because the file is missing the line Type=Application. + + This line is already present in the Jaunty package. The attached + debdiff (comment 2) adds a dpatch to add this line for Intrepid. This + allows vmware-user to autostart correctly. + + This debdiff also fixes bug #289921 “network interface does not come up + after installing open-vm-tools” and bug #306835 “vvmware-guestd + crashing”, and descriptions of the corresponding patches are posted + there. + + The patched package has been in my PPA for four weeks, and confirmed + working by three other users. Risk of regression is low, especially + given that these three bugs essentially prevent the current Intrepid + package from being useful in any way. + + === + Binary package hint: open-vm-toolbox There's a small bug in the vmware-user.desktop file supplied with the open-vm-toolbox package such that the application doesn't automatically start when a new X11 session is started. The details can be found in the upstream bug repository: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2298353&group_id=204462&atid=989708. The fix is trivial: add the line "Type=Application" to vmware- user.desktop (it doesn't matter where). This is a bug in Intrepid, but not in Jaunty (I believe Jaunty resynced to upstream and picked up the upstream fix for the bug). a...@adar-intrepid-vm:~$ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 8.10 Release: 8.10 a...@adar-intrepid-vm:~$ apt-cache policy open-vm-toolbox open-vm-toolbox: Installed: 2008.08.08-109361-1ubuntu1 Candidate: 2008.08.08-109361-1ubuntu1 Version table: *** 2008.08.08-109361-1ubuntu1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/multiverse Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status -- SRU: vmware-user doesn't autostart https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/302226 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
