Bug #1533
closed
Open-VM-Tools 313025 fails to install, reports installed, can't uninstall
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Description
Build 313025 of Open-VM-Tools fails to install due to an error in open-vm-tools.inc - it aborts installation due to an unknown error, removes files, but reports installed. Attempting to uninstall fails with a hang in the UI, likely due to the .inc file left in /usr/local/pkg being 0 length. It looks like it's not cleaning up the XML on abort/remove and leaving a broken file.
Updated by Jim Pingle over 13 years ago
Is this on i386 or amd64? I just tried i386 this morning and it installed fine, initialized all of the KLDs, and operated as expected. VMware indicates that the tools are installed.
Updated by Phil Jaenke over 13 years ago
Jim P wrote:
Is this on i386 or amd64? I just tried i386 this morning and it installed fine, initialized all of the KLDs, and operated as expected. VMware indicates that the tools are installed.
Wups, entirely my bad there. This is i386 on ESXi 4.1U1 + latest. It cleaned out all files except those in /usr/local/pkg and it's entry in main config, and zeroed out open-vm-tools.inc.
I manually copied latest .inc from Gitorious (340a6518) and was able to successfully remove. Attempted to reinstall, now throwing:
Checking for package installation...
Downloading http://files.pfsense.org/packages/8/All/glib-2.26.1_1.tbz ... could not download from there or http://ftp2.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.1-release/All/glib-2.26.1_1.tbz.
of glib-2.26.1_1 failed!
...
Removing Open-VM-Tools components...
Loading package instructions...
Include file open-vm-tools.inc could not be found for inclusion.
Deinstall commands...
Not executing custom deinstall hook because an include is missing.
Updated by Phil Jaenke over 13 years ago
Please close as resolved; now installs and uninstalls with no errors.