[Bug 1933143] [NEW] Open-vm-tools release 11.3.0 has been released

2021-06-21 Thread John Wolfe
Public bug reported: Open-vm-tools release 11.3.0 has been released open-vm-tools 11.3.0 has been released on June 18, 2021 containing: - a number of bug and Coverity fixes. - command line tool to control various aspects of the vmwgfx Linux kernel module (open-vmtools-desktop) - comman

[Bug 1925130] Re: VMWare easy install stops on "Prepare stage"

2021-04-21 Thread John Wolfe
VMware has not seen any problems with the beta image release at the end of March. Will download an iso from https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ to test, but if we should be using something other than the "current" daily image, please provide a link. -- You received this bug notificati

[Bug 1925130] Re: VMWare easy install stops on "Prepare stage"

2021-04-21 Thread John Wolfe
The hosted team has reported that they have completed an Easy Install of the ISO from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20210420/ using Product: VMware Workstation 16 Player Version: 16.1.2 build-17917721 This a recent update. I will try to install the same ISO on Workstation Pro 16.1.1 --

[Bug 1925130] Re: VMWare easy install stops on "Prepare stage"

2021-04-21 Thread John Wolfe
No problems with Easy Install of hirsute-desktop-amd64.iso (current daily) with Workstation 16.1.1. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1925130 Title: VMWare easy install stops on "Prepare

[Bug 1925130] Re: VMWare easy install stops on "Prepare stage"

2021-04-21 Thread John Wolfe
Update to comment 5. The player 16.1.2 has not been released yet. Sorry for the confusion. We are retesting with Player 16.1.1. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1925130 Title: VMWare

[Bug 1925130] Re: VMWare easy install stops on "Prepare stage"

2021-04-22 Thread John Wolfe
VMware testing with Player version 16.1.1 - OK. But it does have the stop on the Install Updates screen as reported in the revised description. FYI: This is being tracked at VMware with https://bugzilla.eng.vmware.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2756304 ** Bug watch added: bugzilla.eng.vmware.com/ #2756304

[Bug 1911831] Re: open-vm-tools 11.2.5 has been released

2021-01-15 Thread John Wolfe
VMware tracking issue: https://jira.eng.vmware.com/browse/VMTOOLS-476 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1911831 Title: open-vm-tools 11.2.5 has been released To manage notifications abo

[Bug 1911831] Re: open-vm-tools 11.2.5 has been released

2021-01-15 Thread John Wolfe
@Christian, Per the 11.2.5 ReleaseNotes.md at https://github.com/vmware/open-vm- tools/blob/stable-11.2.5/ReleaseNotes.md, previously reported issues #467 and #468 have been fixed in this release. As with the 11.2.0 OVT release, this release provides suggested vmtoolsd pam configuration files for

[Bug 1892266] [NEW] open-vm-tools 11.1.5 has been released

2020-08-19 Thread John Wolfe
Public bug reported: This is to announce that open-vm-tools 11.1.5 has been GA released. See https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/stable-11.1.5 In addition to containing the SDMP plugin fixes made available in the "stable-11.1.0-SDMP-fixes" branch, the release also addresses sev

[Bug 1892266] Re: open-vm-tools 11.1.5 has been released

2020-08-20 Thread John Wolfe
@Christian - Yes, Oliver is transitioning to another team within VMware and I will be taking over from him. I look forward to working with you. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1892266

[Bug 1901116] [NEW] open-vm-tools 11.2.0 has been released

2020-10-22 Thread John Wolfe
Public bug reported: open-vm-tools 11.2.0 has been released. See https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/stable-11.2.0 This source update contains fixes for a couple of detected memory leaks, issues reported by Coverity and issues and pull requests submitted to https://github.com/vm

[Bug 1901116] Re: open-vm-tools 11.2.0 has been released

2020-10-30 Thread John Wolfe
Both issue #467 and pull #469 are targeted for the next update (11.2.5) of open-vm-tools. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1901116 Title: open-vm-tools 11.2.0 has been released To mana

[Bug 677797] [NEW] package update-manager 1:0.134.11 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 139

2010-11-20 Thread John Wolfe
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: update-manager Error occurred during update. ProblemType: Package DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: update-manager 1:0.134.11 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.39-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Da

[Bug 677797] Re: package update-manager 1:0.134.11 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 139

2010-11-20 Thread John Wolfe
-- package update-manager 1:0.134.11 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 139 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/677797 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ub

[Bug 677798] [NEW] package libgksu2-0 2.0.13~pre1-1ubuntu4.1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 139

2010-11-20 Thread John Wolfe
Public bug reported: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS ProblemType: Package DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: libgksu2-0 2.0.13~pre1-1ubuntu4.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.39-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Sat Nov 20 01:35:39 2010 ErrorMessage:

[Bug 677798] Re: package libgksu2-0 2.0.13~pre1-1ubuntu4.1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 139

2010-11-20 Thread John Wolfe
-- package libgksu2-0 2.0.13~pre1-1ubuntu4.1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 139 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/677798 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscri

[Bug 1975721] [NEW] Open-vm-tools 12.0.5 has been released

2022-05-25 Thread John Wolfe
Public bug reported: Open-vm-tools 12.0.5 was released on May 24, 2022. There are no new features or significant changes in the open-vm-tools 12.0.5 release. This is primarily a maintenance release that contains fixes for two potential FTBFS issues. It contains a known problem - a potential FTBF

[Bug 1975796] Re: Open-vm-tools 12.0.5 has been released

2022-05-26 Thread John Wolfe
The copy/paste of the text above broke the URL links. Correcting here. For complete details, see: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm- tools/releases/tag/stable-12.0.5 Release Notes are available at: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm- tools/blob/stable-12.0.5/ReleaseNotes.md The granular changes

[Bug 1975796] Re: Open-vm-tools 12.0.5 has been released

2022-05-26 Thread John Wolfe
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1975721 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1975721 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1975721 Open-vm-tools 12.0.5 has been released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu

[Bug 2039206] Re: open-vm-tools "hwclock" needed for VM guest customization not available

2024-04-10 Thread John Wolfe
Thanks for the suggestion. I have passed your suggestions along to the Guest Customization team along with links to this bug report in an internal bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/20

[Bug 1973660] Re: Login screen not refreshing properly on vSphere

2022-05-17 Thread John Wolfe
One thing that comes to mind is to check the VMs hardware configuration. The amount of memory available to the VM will affect the amount of memory that can be dedicated to the graphics display. In my Workstation, the recommended minimum memory is 2 GB for my Ubuntu 20.04 guest - 2 virtual proce

[Bug 1933143] Re: Open-vm-tools release 11.3.0 has been released

2021-09-07 Thread John Wolfe
Testing desktop graphical events on Workstation 16.1.2 build-17966106 20.04 - Focal - X11 desktop - Added pre-release updates. - Installed 11.3.0 (letting other updates pending) - note: using nautilus version 3.36.3 - files DnD, C/P host <==> guest - OK

[Bug 1944946] Re: the path of plugin libdeployPkgPlugin.so of open-vm-tools 11.3.0 is changed and guest customization will fail

2021-09-24 Thread John Wolfe
Was the move of the open-vm-tools plugins from /usr/lib/open-vm-tools to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/open-vm-tools an intentional change in the 11.3.0 packaging? Would it be feasible to repackage 11.3.0, adding a symbolic link from /usr/lib/open-vm-tools to x86_64-linux-gnu/open-vm-tools ? -- You

[Bug 1944946] Re: Path of open-vm-tools libdeployPkgPlugin.so is now multi-arch compliant breaking cloud-init

2021-09-27 Thread John Wolfe
Hi Yuhua, Please confirm that guest customization using cloud-init does, in fact, work with with this ppa. Also, while the SDMP plugin is locating the scripts based on the installation directory, it would not hurt to run any basic SDMP test(s) available to confirm that there are no issues associa

[Bug 1945265] [NEW] Open-vm-tools release 11.3.5 has been released

2021-09-27 Thread John Wolfe
Public bug reported: open-vm-tools 11.3.5 has been released on Sept 23, 2021 containing changes for: - A configurable logging capability has been added to the network script. - The hgfsmounter (mount.vmhgfs) command has been removed from open-vm-tools. See: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-

[Bug 1945265] Re: Open-vm-tools release 11.3.5 has been released

2021-09-28 Thread John Wolfe
The next VMware Tools / open-vm-tools release will be version 12.0.0 with a target release in Jan. 2022. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1945265 Title: Open-vm-tools release 11.3.5 has

[Bug 1944946] Re: Path of open-vm-tools libdeployPkgPlugin.so is now multi-arch compliant breaking cloud-init

2021-09-28 Thread John Wolfe
Hi Christian, We are certain that the SDMP plugin ./usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/open-vm- tools/plugins/vmsvc/libserviceDiscovery.so can be found and loaded since all the other vmsvc and vmusr plugins are successfully handled. We are waiting on the vROps team - to run some smoke test(s) that use t

[Bug 1944946] Re: Path of open-vm-tools libdeployPkgPlugin.so is now multi-arch compliant breaking cloud-init

2021-09-29 Thread John Wolfe
@Christian The SDMP team has confirmed that the only use of the serviceDiscovery/scripts path and contents is by the service discovery plugin. That base of that path used by the SDMP compilation and make install of the SDMP scripts is derived from $(libdir) which in turn is derived from the confi

[Bug 1935665] Re: open-vm-tools builds without fuse support when built with libfuse3-dev

2022-01-06 Thread John Wolfe
At VMware, we have made the following straight forward changes in the ./debian/control file. Build-Depends:libfuse-dev ===> libfuse3-dev open-vm-tools Recommends:fuse ==> fuse3 open-vm-tools-desktop Recommends:fuse ==> fuse3 and in ./debian/open-vm-tools-desktop.postinst

[Bug 1935665] Re: open-vm-tools builds without fuse support when built with libfuse3-dev

2022-01-07 Thread John Wolfe
Hi Christen, > $ modinfo fuse3 > modinfo: ERROR: Module fuse3 not found. > > So that should not change. Thanks for catching that error in the open-vm-tools-desktop.postinst file. > Furthermore in all situations where configure can auto-detect one or the other it is wise to hard-select the one y

[Bug 1963831] [NEW] Open-vm-tools 12.0.0 has been released

2022-03-06 Thread John Wolfe
Public bug reported: Open-vm-tools 12.0.0 was released on Mar. 4, 2022. The VMware Tools 12.0.0 was officially released on Mar. 1, 2022. This release contains two new, optional features - Support for managing Salt Minion. - port for gathering and publishing a list of containers running insid

[Bug 2071476] [NEW] open-vm-tools version 12.4.5 has been released - please rebase

2024-06-28 Thread John Wolfe
Public bug reported: open-vm-tools 12.4.5 was released on June 27, 2024 - based on build 23787635. There are no new features in the open-vm-tools 12.4.5 release. This is primarily a maintenance release that addresses a few critical problems, including: - A Github pull request and associated is

[Bug 1944946] Re: Path of open-vm-tools libdeployPkgPlugin.so is now multi-arch compliant breaking cloud-init

2021-10-05 Thread John Wolfe
I share your impatience. I have pinged the vROps team that is running the SDMP smoke test. John Savanyo has been cc'ed on that e-mail. I agree with your assessment that the fix as proposed will work. It would be nice for the confirmation. -- You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 1944946] Re: Path of open-vm-tools libdeployPkgPlugin.so is now multi-arch compliant breaking cloud-init

2021-10-07 Thread John Wolfe
@Christian - Just got the test results. The Service Discovery smoke test(s) PASSED. The multi-arch layout does not impact the SDMP plugin. The Guest Customization team will be resolving the libdeployPkgPlugin check in the cloud-init project. - quickly, by adding the multi-arch paths to the li

[Bug 1944946] Re: Path of open-vm-tools libdeployPkgPlugin.so is now multi-arch compliant breaking cloud-init

2021-10-07 Thread John Wolfe
I was being conservative, not being aware of: - when the path fix will be made to cloud-init - when the next release of cloud-init (with the fix) will be available. Open-vm-tools 11.3.5 on Ubuntu and Debian w/o the /usr/lib/open-vm-tools symbolic link will have a dependency on the updated next

[Bug 2085059] [NEW] open-vm-tools version 12.5.0 has been released - please rebase

2024-10-20 Thread John Wolfe
Public bug reported: There are no new features in the open-vm-tools 12.5.0 release. This is primarily a maintenance release that addresses a few issues, including: - A Github pull request. Please see the Resolved Issues section of the Release Notes. - Avoid deprecated function warnings i

[Bug 2085059] Re: open-vm-tools version 12.5.0 has been released - please rebase

2025-01-10 Thread John Wolfe
Hi Christian, Sorry for the delay. I believe your assessment is correct and 12.5.0 is probably not needed back on "noble". The only change of any significance is the changes to accomodate newer releases of libxml2 and xmlsec1. I suspect those are not going to be upgraded on UB 24.04. -- You

[Bug 2085193] Re: Backport of open-vm-tools for plucky

2025-01-10 Thread John Wolfe
Responded on https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2085059. No driving reason to distribut OVT 12,5.0 for noble. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2085193 Title: Backport of open-vm-tools for