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Re: Debian Testing VMWare-Tools Bad Variable Name



On 07/21/13 at 04:09pm, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> In the case of Debian 7.1.0 the vmware tools installed without any problems.
> 
> Unfortunately, this was not the case with Debian Testing.  the tools
> installed without any problems, but when the installer ran
> /usr/bin/ware/vmware.config.tools.pl there were errors:
> 
> >Starting VMware Tools services in the virtual machine:
> >   Switching to guest configuration: done
> >/etc/init.d/vmware-tools: 1090: local: ': bad variable name
> >/etc/init.d/vmware-tools: 1090: local: ': bad variable name
> >   Blocking file system:failed
> >/etc/init.d/vmware-tools: 1187: local: ': bad variable name
> >   Guest operating system daemon: done
> >Unable to start services for VMware Tools
>  The lines in question are:
> 
> 1090   local run_kver=`get_version_integer`
> 
> and
> 
> 1187    local run_kver=`get_version_integer`

Can you provide the vmware.config.tools.pl from your system?
Can you `type get_version_integer`? if it's referenced in that script, can you
provide it also? Sounds like an unescaped quote in one of these scripts, might
have to identify the maintainer and bugreport upstream. 

Also, didn't you post this recently, with a longer log? Is this the same issue?

-- 
William

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