I also had shared folders fail to work after I upgraded from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04 LTS and installed the tools. I'm not sure if it's related to this. The error I got was "Failed to get unit file state for run- vmblockx2dfuse.mount: No such file or directory"
When I went to install VMware Tools from the ISO it suggested I use open-vm-tools. I installed that and open-vm-tools-desktop but hgfs didn't work. I read in this bug a comment by virtualadrian to install libfuse-dev so I did that, and then I reinstalled vmtools: sudo apt-get purge open-vm-tools open-vm-tools-desktop sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools open-vm-tools-desktop I still got the fuse error message after doing that, but I added the line to fstab provided by drolevar in bug 1551558 and rebooted, and now it works. echo '.host:/ /mnt/hgfs fuse.vmhgfs-fuse allow_other,uid=1000,gid=1000,auto_unmount,users,defaults 0 0' \ | tee -a /etc/fstab -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1513531 Title: Error while installing To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1513531/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
