Bug 500002

Summary:	app-emulation/open-vm-tools should unconditionally depend on sys-fs/fuse
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	tanstaafl <tanstaafl>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo VMWare Bug Squashers [disabled] <vmware+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description tanstaafl@libertytrek.org 2014-02-01 18:29:07 UTC

First time installing open-vm-tools.

Installed, but got the following error when starting vmware-tools:

 # /etc/init.d/vmware-tools start
 * /tmp/VMwareDnD: correcting mode
 * /proc/fs/vmblock/mountPoint: creating directory
 * checkpath: mkdir: No such file or directory
 * Mounting vmblock ...
mount: mount point /proc/fs/vmblock/mountPoint does not exist    [ !! ]
 * Starting vmware-tools ...                                     [ ok ]

Asked on the gentoo users list and was told that open-vm-tools requires fuse, and confirmed that the default installed installed it with -fuse USE flag set.

Added fuse USE flag for app-emulation/open-vm-tools to package.use, reinstalled open-vm-tools, which this time pulled in sys-fs/fuse, and problem is solved.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install open-vm-tools
2. Note above error when starting vmware-tools
3. Note eix open-vm-tools shows that it was installed with -fuse USE flag set
4. add fuse USE flag to app-emulation/open-vm-tools
5. Reinstall open-vm-tools
6. Restart vmware-tools, note that problem/error is solved
Actual Results:  
open-vm-tools was installed with -fuse USE flag set

Expected Results:  
open-vm-tools requires the fuse filesystem, so should have the fuse USE flag set by default

Comment 1 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2014-02-02 15:48:10 UTC

+*open-vm-tools-2013.09.16.1328054-r3 (02 Feb 2014)
+
+  02 Feb 2014; Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
+  +open-vm-tools-2013.09.16.1328054-r3.ebuild,
+  -open-vm-tools-2013.04.16.1098359-r1.ebuild,
+  -open-vm-tools-2013.09.16.1328054-r1.ebuild:
+  Depend on sys-fs/fuse unconditionally, bug 500002.
+