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craigwatson / puppet-vmwaretools

Puppet module for non-OSP VMware Tools Installation
http://forge.puppetlabs.com/CraigWatson1987/vmwaretools
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Not installing on rhel7/centos7 #65

Closed blackside closed 9 years ago

blackside commented 9 years ago

Hello, Trying to get my vmwaretools installed on my a clean rhel 7 machine

puppet agent -t gives:

.... Info: Caching catalog for rhel7-test.memnon.se Info: Applying configuration version '1430383137' Notice: /Stage[main]/Vmwaretools::Config/File[/tmp/vmwaretools]/ensure: created Notice: /Stage[main]/Vmwaretools::Install::Archive/File[/tmp/vmwaretools/VMwareTools-9.4.11-2400950.tar.gz]/ensure: defined content as '{md5}98bbfe57aa2dd473cbeacb799a000884' Info: /Stage[main]/Vmwaretools::Install::Archive/File[/tmp/vmwaretools/VMwareTools-9.4.11-2400950.tar.gz]: Scheduling refresh of Exec[uncompress_vmwaretools] Notice: /Stage[main]/Vmwaretools::Install::Exec/Exec[uncompress_vmwaretools]: Triggered 'refresh' from 1 events Info: /Stage[main]/Vmwaretools::Install::Exec/Exec[uncompress_vmwaretools]: Scheduling refresh of Exec[install_vmwaretools] Notice: /Stage[main]/Vmwaretools::Install::Exec/Exec[install_vmwaretools]: Triggered 'refresh' from 1 events Info: /Stage[main]/Vmwaretools::Install::Exec/Exec[install_vmwaretools]: Scheduling refresh of Exec[clean_vmwaretools] Notice: /Stage[main]/Vmwaretools::Install::Exec/Exec[clean_vmwaretools]: Triggered 'refresh' from 1 events Info: /Stage[main]/Vmwaretools::Install::Exec/Exec[clean_vmwaretools]: Scheduling refresh of Exec[remove_vmwaretools_working_dir] Notice: /Stage[main]/Vmwaretools::Install::Exec/Exec[remove_vmwaretools_working_dir]: Triggered 'refresh' from 1 events Notice: Finished catalog run in 8.66 seconds

Does this every agent run and never installs. It works on my older rhel6/5 and centos6/5 Only settings I have touched are: $version = '9.4.11-2400950', and added the tar.gz file under files/ folder. What might be the issue? Feels like Im missing something rhel7 related?

craigwatson commented 9 years ago

Hi,

There's a known issue with VMware Tools and RHEL 7 - see #55 for more detail.

To work around, you may need to set the force_install parameter to true (see the documentation in init.pp for more detail on what the parameter does).

I'll add a few notes to the Readme in future, and I'm considering adding a auto-force parameter that automatically uses the force_install parameter on known-bad OS versions, but this is a non-trivial change and may take a while to fully test :)

Can you confirm that the force_install parameter fixes your issue?

Thanks, Craig

blackside commented 9 years ago

Thanks! Got it working now. I was a bit wary about setting a value like force_install to true ;)