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2011-6-22 上午8:05

Unable to start services for VMware Tools

I am demoing a current version of vmware workstation downloaded last week and running on Windows 7 64 bit Host with an Ubuntu 11.04 32 bit guest. I went through the easy install using a current iso off the ubuntu site. Once installed and booted into the ubuntu guest I noticed the vmware tools were not running. Upon digging around I found the service failed. I went ahead and ran the vmware-config-tools.pl script again and posted the last bit of relevant output. I also dug through the syslog and found the output where the service failed.

 

I also noticed in 2 days of searching for answers that this comes up a lot, but I never see any resolution in the posts. Anyhow I am considering turning the debug flag on in tpvmlpd.conf but want to know more about where the debug output would end up.

 

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Creating a new initrd boot p_w_picpath for the kernel.
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic
initctl: Job failed to start
Unable to start services for VMware Tools

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SYSLOG OUTPUT after logon and vmware service failure.


Jun 21 17:44:33 ubuntu tpvmlpd[17011]: bad device "/dev/**" given
Jun 21 17:44:33 ubuntu init: vmware-tools pre-start process (16816) terminated with status 1

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Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Pat

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7.  2011-10-30 下午9:06   回复：  apesaa
Re: Unable to start services for VMware Tools

I had this smae problem with Ubuntu 10.4 Server.

 

Turns out that I had open-vm_tools installed. I uninstalled it with:

 

sudo apt-get remove open-vm-tools

 

and then reinstalled the VMWare tools from the CD ROM and it installed properly.

My guess is that the installation of init.d scripts were failing due to other VM-type tools already being in the system.