Comment 75 for bug 1741390

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yanhuih@vmware.com (yanhuih) wrote :

Env:
VMs:
* ubuntu-16.04.4-desktop-amd64
* ubuntu-16.04.4-server-amd64
* ubuntu-17.10-desktop-amd64
* ubuntu-17.10-server-amd64

open-vm-tools version: 10.2.0.1608(build-7253323) from ppa:ci-train-ppa-service/3152 or using the default repository

Result:
open-vm-tools can be installed and uninstalled successfully except the following 2 problems.

Problem:
There is 2 problems.
1) After install open-vm-tools, ubuntu 17.10 desktop needs reboot to validate vmtoolsd
2) During install open-vm-tools, ubuntu 17.10 server needs to ask this question about "tools.conf" to continue. (I'm not sure it's necessary.)
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Installing new version of config file /etc/vmware-tools/scripts/vmware/network ...

Configuration file '/etc/vmware-tools/tools.conf'
 ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation.
 ==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version.
   What would you like to do about it ? Your options are:
    Y or I : install the package maintainer's version
    N or O : keep your currently-installed version
      D : show the differences between the versions
      Z : start a shell to examine the situation
 The default action is to keep your current version.
*** tools.conf (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? y
Installing new version of config file /etc/vmware-tools/tools.conf ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.26-0ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (234-2ubuntu12) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ...
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Steps:
1) add repository
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ci-train-ppa-service/3152
sudo apt-get update

2) update to / install open-vm-tools 10.2.0, and then check tools, vgauth, vmware-toolbox-cmd

3) reboot guestOS and check tools, vgauth, vmware-toolbox-cmd

4) uninstall open-vm-tools and then check tools, vgauth, vmware-toolbox-cmd

5) reboot guestOS and check tools, vgauth, vmware-toolbox-cmd

6) install/uninstall open-vm-tools-desktop

If ignore anything, please kindly tell me.

Thanks!
Yanhui