Bug 291236

Summary:	app-emulation/open-vm-tools 20091015 vmtoolsd fails to start
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Brandon Holbrook <gentoo>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Vadim Kuznetsov (RETIRED) <vadimk>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	major	CC:	gentoo-bugzilla, gentoo, troy, vmware+disabled
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Brandon Holbrook 2009-10-30 23:16:13 UTC

The /etc/init.d/vmware-tools script fails to start.

When attempting to execute vmtoolsd manually in the forground, I get:
[   error] [vmsvc] Trying to overwrite existing RPC registration for f!

See the Debian bugreport at:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=551626

Supposedly the problem is caused because /etc/vmware-tools/plugins/common/ contains both .so files and .la files.  I tried removing the .la files as the report suggests, and it did indeed fix the problem for me.  The Debian bugreport also includes a patch to Makefile.am to avoid installing the files.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Troy Bowman 2009-11-01 20:08:12 UTC

Yup, removing the .la files worked for me!  :)

Comment 2 Wormo (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-11-12 06:42:09 UTC

Thanks for reporting this .la file problem -- assigning to maintainers.

Comment 3 James Gagnon 2009-11-19 21:26:27 UTC

Removed all .la files resolved the issue for me.

P.S. Hi Troy

Comment 4 Vadim Kuznetsov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-12-20 14:08:50 UTC

*** Bug 283654 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Vadim Kuznetsov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-12-20 14:10:40 UTC

fixed in open-vm-tools-0.0.20091216.217847.ebuild