Bug#526203: workaround

2009-05-01 Thread J Norment
Not knowing whether or not having both pcnet32 and vmxnet modules loaded, I found a work around that consistently shows only: $ lsmod | egrep 'vm|pcnet' vmsync 3836 0 vmmemctl7388 0 vmhgfs 33376 0 vmxnet 13696 0 I think this wo

Bug#526203: inconsistent behavior ?

2009-04-29 Thread J Norment
It's possible that I missed something else, but after following the same steps, on a similar guest host (Lenny, after apt-get update/upgrade), the end result is that vmxnet is not loaded after reboot. Here is a relevant piece of dpkg -s open-vm-tools in that environment: Version: 2008.11.18-13022

Bug#524950: hmm...

2009-04-29 Thread J Norment
You and I evidently have different interpretations of what 'broken' means. I've gotten used to apt-get install foo doing everything necessary to get a package working after being issued. This includes modules for kernel video drivers, but that is on Ubuntu. Perhaps Ubuntu has a different theory o