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

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved 2.0-RC Snapshot Feedback and Problems - RETIRED
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    jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
    last edited by Jun 13, 2011, 11:25 AM

    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
    

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      Clouseau
      last edited by Jun 13, 2011, 11:25 AM

      $ 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)
      

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        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
        last edited by Jun 13, 2011, 11:28 AM

        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.

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          Clouseau
          last edited by Jun 13, 2011, 11:31 AM

          yep - no wonder I have some problems  :D

          Now must figure out how to fix it.

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            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
            last edited by Jun 13, 2011, 12:37 PM

            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)
            

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              Clouseau
              last edited by Jun 13, 2011, 12:53 PM

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

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                jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                last edited by Jun 13, 2011, 12:58 PM

                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.

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                  photonman
                  last edited by Jun 13, 2011, 5:07 PM

                  @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...

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                    Clouseau
                    last edited by Jun 20, 2011, 7:17 PM

                    @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 :-)

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                      jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                      last edited by Jun 20, 2011, 7:21 PM

                      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.

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