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industrie13

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From: Leipzig, Germany

Registered: 2009-08-22

Posts: 15

open-vm-tools fail to start

Hi,

I installed open-vm-tools in my Arch x64 installation in VMWare Fusion, added it to rc.conf, but it resists to start properly and gives me a [FAIL] instead

[industrie13@arch64 ~]$ sudo /etc/rc.d/open-vm-tools start
:: Starting Open Virtual Machine Tools                                                                                                  [FAIL] 
[industrie13@arch64 ~]$ sudo /etc/rc.d/open-vm-tools restart
:: Stopping Open Virtual Machine Tools                                                                                                  [BUSY]
ERROR: Module vmhgfs is in use
                                                                                                                                        [FAIL] 
:: Starting Open Virtual Machine Tools                                                                                                  [FAIL]

Any hints? A re-install didn't help.

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: open-vm-tools fail to start

what kernel version do you use ?

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marfig

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2010-07-30

Posts: 189

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Re: open-vm-tools fail to start

This happens to me to sicne I first installed Arch (kernel 2.6.34-1). I gave up on it since I seem to have shared folders regardless.
Meanhwile, In X the new open-vm-tools version seems to have problems dealing with mouse integration. It works intermittently, when before it used to work great. But clipboard sharing works great.

Kernel: 2.6.34-2

Last edited by marfig (2010-08-08 18:18:43)

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industrie13

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From: Leipzig, Germany

Registered: 2009-08-22

Posts: 15

Re: open-vm-tools fail to start

what kernel version do you use ?

[industrie13@arch64 ~]$ uname -r
2.6.34-ARCH

and x64

Last edited by industrie13 (2010-08-08 18:42:13)

industrie13

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From: Leipzig, Germany

Registered: 2009-08-22

Posts: 15

Re: open-vm-tools fail to start

Ok, at system boot open-vm-tools start in the background without [Fail]-message, even when I didn't marked it as such in rc.conf.

The message when I do a "sudo /etc/rc.d/open-vm-tools restart" keeps the same. How can I verify that vmware-tools are started properly?