Open-VM-Tools start fails after update - (fix found)

[Clouseau]

FYI:
2.0-RC2 (i386) build on Sun May 15 ==> Update to:
2.0-RC3 (i386) built on Tue Aug 23 17:40:03 EDT 2011

I made on update from RC2 15.5 version to RC3. After update boot installation of the packages went something wrong. After trying to start vm-tools on boot there was an Fatal error: Cannot redeclare test_pfspkg() (previously declared in /usr/local/pkg/squid.inc:1420 in /usr/pkg/open-vem-tools.inc on line 171

After boot squid was down and open-vm-tools was not running. I had to go Diagnostics: Backup/restore page and there  to Package Functions and clear the package lock. Reinstall all system packages fails but it was possible to go System: Package Manager and reinstall only squid and open-vm-tool packages. After that FW is up and running again.

I have WMware ESXi system in use.

[jimp]

That was most likely due to the old system being pretty far out of date.

Had you reinstalled the packages before upgrading it may have been OK. That whole test_pfspkg deal was fixed months and months ago.