NOT SOLVED !! : Open-VM-Tools - NOT WORKING on vSphere

[jimp]

Don't pkg_delete those, try to find out more about why it can't start vmware-guestd.

What does this output?

ldd /usr/local/bin/vmtoolsd

[Clouseau]

$ ldd /usr/local/bin/vmtoolsd
/usr/local/bin/vmtoolsd:
	libvmtools.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libvmtools.so.0 (0x2809a000)
	libcrypt.so.5 => /lib/libcrypt.so.5 (0x280f5000)
	libthr.so.3 => /lib/libthr.so.3 (0x2810e000)
	libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => not found (0x0)
	libgobject-2.0.so.0 => not found (0x0)
	libgthread-2.0.so.0 => not found (0x0)
	libglib-2.0.so.0 => not found (0x0)
	libintl.so.9 => /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.9 (0x28123000)
	libiconv.so.3 => /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.3 (0x2812c000)
	libpcre.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libpcre.so.0 (0x28222000)
	libicui18n.so.46 => not found (0x0)
	libicuuc.so.46 => not found (0x0)
	libicudata.so.46 => not found (0x0)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x2825e000)
	libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x28352000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x2836c000)
	libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x28377000)
	libglib-2.0.so.0 => not found (0x0)
	libicui18n.so.46 => not found (0x0)
	libicuuc.so.46 => not found (0x0)
	libicudata.so.46 => not found (0x0)

[jimp]

So for some reason on your system it's not pulling in all of the dependencies that it needs. All of the ones that say "not found" should exist.

[Clouseau]

yep - no wonder I have some problems  :D

Now must figure out how to fix it.

[jimp]

It works fine from a fresh install. I just wiped a VM, installed from the latest ISO, and only installed the vmware tools package.

[2.0-RC2][root@pfSense.localdomain]/root(1): ps uxawww | grep vm
root      19  0.0  0.0     0     8  ??  DL   12:17PM   0:00.00 [vmdaemon]
root   34122  0.0  1.1 26188  5320  ??  S    12:31PM   0:00.33 /usr/local/bin/vmtoolsd -c /usr/local/share/vmware-tools/tools.conf -p /usr/local/lib/open-vm-tools/plugins/vmsvc
root   33235  0.0  0.2  1848  1164   0  R+   12:35PM   0:00.00 grep vm

[2.0-RC2][root@pfSense.localdomain]/root(2): pkg_info
bsdinstaller-2.0.2011.0612 BSD Installer mega-package
fusefs-kmod-0.3.9.p1.20080208_7 Kernel module for fuse
fusefs-libs-2.7.4   FUSE allows filesystem implementation in userspace
gettext-0.18.1.1    GNU gettext package
glib-2.26.1_1       Some useful routines of C programming (current stable versi
grub-0.97_4         GRand Unified Bootloader
icu-4.6.1           International Components for Unicode (from IBM)
libdnet-1.11_3      A simple interface to low level networking routines
libiconv-1.13.1_1   A character set conversion library
open-vm-tools-nox11-313025_2 Open VMware tools for FreeBSD VMware guests
pcre-8.12           Perl Compatible Regular Expressions library
perl-5.10.1_3       Practical Extraction and Report Language
perl-5.12.3         Practical Extraction and Report Language
pkg-config-0.25_1   A utility to retrieve information about installed libraries
python27-2.7.1_1    An interpreted object-oriented programming language

[2.0-RC2][root@pfSense.localdomain]/root(3): ldd `which vmtoolsd`
/usr/local/bin/vmtoolsd:
        libvmtools.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libvmtools.so.0 (0x2809a000)
        libcrypt.so.5 => /lib/libcrypt.so.5 (0x280f5000)
        libthr.so.3 => /lib/libthr.so.3 (0x2810e000)
        libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0x28123000)
        libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0x28127000)
        libgthread-2.0.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0 (0x2816a000)
        libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x2816f000)
        libintl.so.9 => /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.9 (0x28241000)
        libiconv.so.3 => /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.3 (0x2824a000)
        libpcre.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libpcre.so.0 (0x28340000)
        libicui18n.so.46 => /usr/local/lib/libicui18n.so.46 (0x2837c000)
        libicuuc.so.46 => /usr/local/lib/libicuuc.so.46 (0x2855e000)
        libicudata.so.46 => /usr/local/lib/libicudata.so.46 (0x28694000)
        libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x29513000)
        libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x29607000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x29621000)
        libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x2962c000)

[Clouseau]

ok - but I need to get this fixed (not possible make a fresh install)  ???

[jimp]

If that isn't working, there is no telling what else isn't working.

It's a VM. Make a new VM. Restore the config. Power off the old one, power on the new one, install the package.

It's a lot easier to make a fresh install into a VM than real hardware. There is very little compelling reason to fight something that is obviously corrupt or not proper about a VM.

[photonman]

@jimp:

There is very little compelling reason to fight something that is obviously corrupt or not proper about a VM.

…amen

cut the losses and move on...

that is what is so wonderful about VM's as they are so easy to provision with new pf builds...

[Clouseau]

@jimp:

If that isn't working, there is no telling what else isn't working.

It's a VM. Make a new VM. Restore the config. Power off the old one, power on the new one, install the package.

It's a lot easier to make a fresh install into a VM than real hardware. There is very little compelling reason to fight something that is obviously corrupt or not proper about a VM.

Yes, easy fix !

• but I'm still interested to find what went and is wrong and how to avoid it next time! This same problem or bug might popup again and then you should have the knowledge fix it easily or even avoid it totally. That's why we use RC/BETA's to find these kind of bugs and unwanted features. The beta testing it's not always to find the easy fix but solid solution :-)

[jimp]

That is only useful if you spend less time tracking it down than reinstalling. If you want to figure it out, have at it, but when there are workable alternatives that get you a working system in less time then I don't see how spending more developer resources on tracking down what happened in one specific odd case would be worth the time.