am trying to do the backport myself, but feel things are getting hairy as this is for a production server, in this case one suffering from bug #720095.
It was slightly worrying in that installing the backport kernel triggered no apparent error message from the dkms_autoinstall script; I only discovered there was a failure because I had a sneaking suspicion. The new kernel actually worked anyway, but presumably without the tools, would have been suboptimal. Still, am is learning to do something new, which is always fun. :-) The incantations that seem to have worked for me (abbreviated from my bash history): wget https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/open-vm- tools_2010.06.16-268169.orig.tar.gz http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/o/open-vm-tools/open- vm-tools_2010.06.16-268169-3ubuntu1.diff.gz (get latest versions from http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/open-vm- tools) aptitude install devscripts tar xvfz open-vm-tools_2010.06.16-268169.orig.tar.gz cd open-vm-tools-2010.06.16-268169/ zcat ../open-vm-tools_2010.06.16-268169-3ubuntu1.diff.gz | patch -p1 chmod +x debian/rules aptitude install devscripts debhelper autotools-dev quilt libdumbnet-dev libfuse-dev libgtk2.0-dev libgtkmm-2.4-dev libicu-dev libnotify-dev libpam0g-dev liburiparser-dev libx11-dev libxinerama-dev libxss-dev libxtst-dev dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -nc cd .. and there they are. To install for my server-only setup: dpkg -i open-vm-tools_2010.06.16-268169-3ubuntu1_amd64.deb open-vm- dkms_2010.06.16-268169-3ubuntu1_all.deb YMMV on the last, if you need the toolbox etc. BTW it also (apparently successfully) rebuilt the modules for the Lucid 2.6.32 kernels still on the system. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/746152 Title: open-vm-dkms fails to build with officially backported kernel -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
