Hi Bernd, The similar problem can be seen from this. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1322434
In update#5, Ravindra Kumar said: Please refer the fix I made for Fedora http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/open-vm-tools.git/commit/?id=17141dd91c3 21fc41f7d1874d64e8ea7d055fcc9. It is a simple packaging step to be done in your pre-uninstall step. Could you please look into it? It may easy understand the problem, thanks! Best regards, Yanhui On 5/30/16, 7:26 PM, "Bernd Zeimetz" <be...@bzed.de> wrote: >Hi Yanhui! > >> This bug is the same as the one of Bug#825812 for my re-send. Please >> ignore one of them. > >I've merged them, don't worry :) > >> When install debian in Vmware ESXi Host Server, it will display the >> open-vm-tools for each guest OS in vSphere Client, such as the attached >> screenshot of “guest info on vSphere Client.png”. >> >> The right display should be: >> Vmware Tools: Not running, version 0 (Guest Managed) >> >> But the wrong display is shown as below. >> Vmware Tools: Not running, version 2147483647 (Guest Managed) > >Actually I have no idea what I should do against that :) >While removing the package vmtoolsd is being stopped (sigterm + sigkill >if it doesn't react) and that is all we do. > >It is no problem to execute something else when the package is being >removed, but then you'd have to tell me what to run :) > > >Also, as a related question: is there a way to tell from "version >2147483647 (Guest Managed)" which open-vm-tools version is avtually >installed? > >Thanks & best regards, > >Bernd > > >-- > Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer > >https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__bzed.de&d=CwIDaQ&c=Sqc >l0Ez6M0X8aeM67LKIiDJAXVeAw-YihVMNtXt-uEs&r=EWtp6eb9bfT1h5Xz7k40uBCAtmHtQpb >LBghzeC1lnEY&m=wFFtXTwdstlJaYE1oHyr9tMEMl3ygOdng1ZaHpBbQf8&s=m_8CWIdxsmZZx >4tpR7XfpYDPQQbXhY3CKeNYOje_zTA&e= >https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.debian.org&d=CwIDa >Q&c=Sqcl0Ez6M0X8aeM67LKIiDJAXVeAw-YihVMNtXt-uEs&r=EWtp6eb9bfT1h5Xz7k40uBCA >tmHtQpbLBghzeC1lnEY&m=wFFtXTwdstlJaYE1oHyr9tMEMl3ygOdng1ZaHpBbQf8&s=jw1n8J >Sh_y56uEJGM8tJ787aOVnJjFJT-DdrZbKysvM&e= > GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F
