Open VM tools installed breaks 2.0 upgrade [SOLVED]

[gerdesj]

I can't update this post: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,23044.msg118565.html#msg118565

Basically a 1.2.3 version system running under VMWare with open-vm-tools installed.  Upgrade to 2.0 and get a panic.

Now I'm a Linux sysadmin and had to learn BSDisms rather quickly.  Also this is from memory. I suggest you snapshot/clone the VM before trying these steps, perhaps you should have done it earlier!

I was able to fix the VM like this:

Select single user mode from the loader prompt
The root fs was mounted read-only due to some errors - I'm not sure what caused them.
#fsck -y /
#mount -o rw /
#pkg_info -a   this shows all the packages and the last one is probably open-vm-tools-nox11- <some number="">#pkg_delete open-vm-tools-nox11-                (fill in the full name)
I got a few errors but the package was removed as best as it could
#reboot

Sorted!

Go into the installed packages list in the web GUI and remove the open-vm-tools listed there to clean things up.

Cheers
Jon</some>