no idea. could be. I am just a vmware enduser, doing the naive thing of trying to install ubuntu 12.04. you are a prominent end use for them, so they may already be working on fixing it and they will probably tell you.
best regards, iaw ---- Ivo Welch ([email protected]) J. Fred Weston Professor of Finance Anderson School at UCLA, C519 http://www.ivo-welch.info/ Editor, Critical Finance Review, http://www.critical-finance-review.org/ On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Colin Watson <[email protected]>wrote: > Isn't this a VMware bug? The Ubuntu installer doesn't do anything with > the VMware tools. > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/945037 > > Title: > 12.04Beta: vmware tools install stops install > > Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu: > Confirmed > > Bug description: > > vmware 4.1.1. probably 12.04beta is too new, but I just wanted to report > that the ubuntu 12.04 beta 1 installation dies in a non-graphical window > that asks to wait until the vmware easy install (of the vmware tools) > completes (when it is supposed to launch the GUI), but it never does > complete. thus, one cannot boot into a GUI, even after a reboot. > > /iaw > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/945037/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/945037 Title: 12.04Beta: vmware tools install stops install To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/945037/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
