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Patch and build VMware tools automatically
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vmware-tools-thinprint failing to start? #89

Open tompscanlan opened 8 years ago

tompscanlan commented 8 years ago

running this on a centos 6.7 guest:

git clone https://github.com/rasa/vmware-tools-patches.git
cd vmware-tools-patches
sudo ./patched-open-vm-tools.sh
...
2015/12/30 21:06:33 ui:     centos-vmware: Do you want to enable Guest Authentication (vgauth)? Enabling vgauth is needed
2015/12/30 21:06:33 ui:     centos-vmware: if you want to enable Common Agent (caf). [yes]
2015/12/30 21:06:33 ui:     centos-vmware:
2015/12/30 21:06:33 ui:     centos-vmware: Do you want to enable Common Agent (caf)? [yes]
2015/12/30 21:06:33 ui:     centos-vmware:
2015/12/30 21:06:33 ui:     centos-vmware: No X install found.
2015/12/30 21:06:33 ui:     centos-vmware:
2015/12/30 21:06:35 ui:     centos-vmware: Creating a new initrd boot image for the kernel.
2015/12/30 21:07:02 ui:     centos-vmware: Generating the key and certificate files.
2015/12/30 21:07:02 ui:     centos-vmware: Successfully generated the key and certificate files.
2015/12/30 21:07:03 ui:     centos-vmware: vmware-tools-thinprint start/running
2015/12/30 21:07:03 ui:     centos-vmware: initctl: Job failed to start
2015/12/30 21:07:03 ui:     centos-vmware: Unable to start services for VMware Tools
2015/12/30 21:07:03 ui:     centos-vmware:
2015/12/30 21:07:03 ui:     centos-vmware: Execution aborted.

I thought this was working recently, and it is working on ubuntu 14.04.

dragon788 commented 8 years ago

@tompscanlan Can you share more of your debug output? I have a feeling this is due to CentOS having systemd and vmware-tools still trying to use init. The PR I submitted for the rc0.d - rc6.d folders may fix this, but feel free to test and let me know if it doesn't.

tompscanlan commented 8 years ago

I bumped up to centos 7 and am working. If I get back to 6.7 I'll see if I can get more information. This can probably close or at least not be a priority.