** Summary changed:
- vmware-guestd crashing
+ SRU: vmware-guestd crashing
** Description changed:
+ The upstream version of open-vm-tools in Intrepid FTBFS because it has
+ format string warnings and is built with -Werror. The Ubuntu “fix”,
+ ubuntu_toolchain_FTBFS.dpatch, introduced many regressions relative to
+ upstream by adding incorrect "%s\n" format strings. These spurious
+ newlines cause vmware-guestd to crash on startup.
+
+ The format string warnings have been fixed (correctly) upstream, so this
+ patch is not needed in Jaunty and has already been removed. The
+ attached debdiff (comment 22) fixes ubuntu_toolchain_FTBFS.dpatch for
+ Intrepid.
+
+ This debdiff also fixes bug #289921 “network interface does not come up
+ after installing open-vm-tools” and bug #302226 “vmware-user doesn't
+ autostart”, and descriptions of the corresponding patches are posted
+ there.
+
+ The patched package has been in my PPA for four weeks, and confirmed
+ working by three other users. Risk of regression is low, especially
+ given that these three bugs essentially prevent the current Intrepid
+ package from being useful in any way.
+
+ ===
+
Binary package hint: open-vm-tools
I have some amd64 machines running on VMWare ESX and the vmware-guestd
terminates itself after a few seconds. The kernel modules load fine and
while vmware-guestd is running the Infrastrcture Client shows that the
VMWare Tools are running.
I used the latest version from -proposed:
open-vm-tools 2008.08.08-109361-1ubuntu2.1
linux-image-2.6.27-9-server 2.6.27-9.19 x86_64
I also attached the output of strace. I think the last few lines are
interessting:
read(13, "Inter-| Receive "..., 1024) = 453
ioctl(12, SIOCGIFFLAGS, {ifr_name="lo",
ifr_flags=IFF_UP|IFF_LOOPBACK|IFF_RUNNING}) = 0
ioctl(12, SIOCGIFMTU, {ifr_name="lo", ifr_mtu=16436}) = 0
ioctl(12, SIOCGIFADDR, {ifr_name="lo", ifr_addr={AF_INET,
inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}}) = 0
ioctl(12, SIOCGIFNETMASK, {ifr_name="lo", ifr_netmask={AF_INET,
inet_addr("255.0.0.0")}}) = 0
ioctl(12, SIOCGIFFLAGS, {ifr_name="eth0",
ifr_flags=IFF_UP|IFF_BROADCAST|IFF_RUNNING|IFF_MULTICAST}) = 0
ioctl(12, SIOCGIFMTU, {ifr_name="eth0", ifr_mtu=1500}) = 0
ioctl(12, SIOCGIFADDR, {ifr_name="eth0", ifr_addr={AF_INET,
inet_addr("131.234.137.92")}}) = 0
ioctl(12, SIOCGIFNETMASK, {ifr_name="eth0", ifr_netmask={AF_INET,
inet_addr("255.255.255.128")}}) = 0
ioctl(12, SIOCGIFHWADDR, {ifr_name="eth0", ifr_hwaddr=00:50:56:aa:19:73}) = 0
write(2, "str.c:100 Buffer too small 0x7f7"..., 34) = 34
write(2, "str.c:100 Buffer too small 0x7f7"..., 34) = 34
write(2, "Backtrace:\n", 11) = 11
futex(0x7f77aa2a6190, 0x81 /* FUTEX_??? */, 2147483647) = 0
write(2, "Backtrace[0] 00007fffb4853200 ri"..., 177) = 177
write(2, "Backtrace[1] 00007fffb4853220 ri"..., 177) = 177
write(2, "Backtrace[2] 00007fffb4853640 ri"..., 177) = 177
write(2, "Backtrace[3] 00007fffb4853720 ri"..., 177) = 177
write(2, "Backtrace[4] 00007fffb4853810 ri"..., 177) = 177
write(2, "Backtrace[5] 00007fffb48538a0 ri"..., 177) = 177
write(2, "Backtrace[6] 00007fffb4857900 ri"..., 177) = 177
write(2, "Backtrace[7] 00007fffb4857920 ri"..., 177) = 177
write(2, "Backtrace[8] 00007fffb4857bc0 ri"..., 177) = 177
write(2, "Backtrace[9] 00007fffb4857be0 ri"..., 177) = 177
write(2, "Backtrace[10] 00007fffb4857fe0 r"..., 178) = 178
write(2, "Backtrace[11] 00007fffb4858050 r"..., 178) = 178
write(2, "Backtrace[12] 00007fffb4858100 r"..., 178) = 178
write(2, "str.c:100 Buffer too small 0x7f7"..., 34) = 34
exit_group(-1) = ?
Process 31194 detached
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SRU: vmware-guestd crashing
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/306835
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