Re: Debian Testing VMWare-Tools Bad Variable Name

[Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Helmar Gerloni <helmar@gerloni.net> wrote:
>>
>> Starting VMware Tools services in the virtual machine:
>>    Switching to guest configuration: [71G done
>>
>> /etc/init.d/vmware-tools: 1090: local: ': bad variable name
>> /etc/init.d/vmware-tools: 1090: local: ': bad variable name
>>
>>    Blocking file system: [71Gfailed
>>
>> /etc/init.d/vmware-tools: 1187: local: ': bad variable name
>>
>>    Guest operating system daemon: [71G done
>>
>> Unable to start services for VMware Tools
>
> The problem lies in the output of uname -r:
>
> root@wheezy:~# uname -r
> 3.2.0-4-686-pae
>
> root@jessie:~# uname -r
> 3.11-2-686-pae
>
> get_version_integer expects a version like "v1 dot v2 dot v3" from "uname -r".

Upstream still uses the "0" (or "n") sublevel so the kernel team might
be amenable to changing its numbering scheme.

# head -n4 Makefile
VERSION = 3
PATCHLEVEL = 13
SUBLEVEL = 0
EXTRAVERSION = -rc3