this is not a duplicate of 275659.
"jockey-gtk crashed with DBusException in call_blocking()" happens for
more than one reason. In this case, it is particular to open-vm-toolbox
package and running under VMWare. Anyone can repro under VMWare
workstation and 8.10 with open-vm-toolbox package instal
** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 253224
[DO NOT REOPEN!] jockey-gtk times out on startup on hardware detection
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in VMWare environment
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/258850
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this bug is not a duplicate.
it is present in jockey 0.5~beta3-0ubuntu6.1
i have open-vm-toolbox (2008.08.08) package installed. it loads
following kernel modules
vmblock
vmci
vmxnet
vmmemctl
vmhgfs
and jockey time outs as the report describes.
but after sudo /etc/init.d/vmware-tools stop
joc
