open-vm-tools-modules, "error: command failed to execute correctly"

Intrepidus · 2011-11-22 01:49:21

I was having some issues with open-vm-tools starting, giving me this error:

FATAL: Could not read '/lib/modules/3.1.1-1-ARCH/extramodules/vmblock.ko': No such file or directory

After taking a glance in the extramodules/ directory, I noticed vmblock (and all the other modules) were still in .ko.gz form.

Figured something went wrong with open-vm-tools-modules, tried to run pacman -S open-vm-tools-modules, and that's when I got this:

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
(1/1) checking package integrity                   [######################] 100%
(1/1) upgrading open-vm-tools-modules              [######################] 100%
error: command failed to execute correctly

Is this a package issue I should report to the manager? Can't find anyone else having issues with it, so I'm not sure.

aabp · 2011-11-23 14:22:44

login as root and try command

# depmod

v43 · 2012-01-05 22:33:45

same problem here. have you solved it?

lifeafter2am · 2012-01-16 05:01:18

I can confirm that running depmod does indeed let you launch open-vm-tools; though this doesn't solve why there is the error when installing the modules package.

daschu117 · 2012-01-17 01:14:02

Looks like the .install for open-vm-tools-modules has a hard-coded kernel version value:

http://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/ … ls-modules

It's explicitly looking for kernel "3.1.0-4-ARCH" when running depmod. Running depmod later on works because you're not looking for that explicit version.

lifeafter2am · 2012-01-17 15:11:53

Seems to me like this is a bug then .... or maybe technically the package is outdated since it is looking for a specific (old) kernel version.

kennethadammiller · 2012-01-27 18:43:26

I would just like to note that I am having the same problem in VMware Fusion 4. But this is an update. I read what you said about having a problem doing pacman -S open-vm-tools-modules: when I enter the command it succeeds. But despite this, when I do sudo /etc/rc.d/open-vm-tools start it still fails, but it doesn't print anything about the vmblock. Doing strace produces some output that I really can't understand at all.

You should see my post here https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 0#p1048450

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#1 2011-11-22 01:49:21

open-vm-tools-modules, "error: command failed to execute correctly"

#2 2011-11-23 14:22:44

Re: open-vm-tools-modules, "error: command failed to execute correctly"

#3 2012-01-05 22:33:45

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#4 2012-01-16 05:01:18

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