Bug#825811: Missing component 'vgauth' in Open-VM-Tools of Debian 7.9 & 7.10 & 8.2 & 8.3 & 8.4 Guest

[Yanhui He]

Hi Oliver,

Please help me to answer this too, thanks in advance!

Best regards,
Yanui

On 5/30/16, 7:21 PM, "Bernd Zeimetz"  wrote:

>Hi,
>
>> VGAuth service was disabled in open-vm-tools 9.4.6 included in Debian
>>7.9
>> & 7.10 & 8.2 & 8.3 & 8.4. This needs to enabled as soon as possible
>> because it makes open-vm-tools in Debian less usable than VMware Tools.
>
>first you should realize that you should not treat Debian point releases
>as a different release on its own. This was the case for Debian 3 and 4.
>For you there  should never be a visible difference between Debian 8.1
>and 8.4.
>
>open-vm-tools 9.4.6 was basically built with a simple 'configure; make;
>make install' - and looking at the build logs like
>
>https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__buildd.debian.org_sta
>tus_fetch.php-3Fpkg-3Dopen-2Dvm-2Dtools-26arch-3Di386-26ver-3D2-253A9.4.6-
>2D1770165-2D8-26stamp-3D1423826483=CwIDaQ=Sqcl0Ez6M0X8aeM67LKIiDJAXVeA
>w-YihVMNtXt-uEs=EWtp6eb9bfT1h5Xz7k40uBCAtmHtQpbLBghzeC1lnEY=BKOIhfGkeW
>Fg4U83sLqhKxaOmrNqKJ3c-YqRoh6gwak=_U14HMgIEXHyVNtZ2aZwHV6rheSVK4UmNnhPfd
>6JnpY= 
>
>you will see, that configure did not complain about missing things, it
>also just did not build vgauth. So I could not know something is missing.
>
>
>To avoid such things, please test open-vm-tools in Debian testing and/or
>unstable.
>
>
>There is a backport of the last 10.0.7 release in wheezy-backports and
>jessie-backports. Please use it instead of the package from the release.
>Also if you are interested in using the latest open-vm-tools version in
>a stable, please use backports. If possible I'll backport the current
>version to stable and oldstable.
>
>In stable Debian releases we'll only add bugfixes, no new features.
>
>
>Best regards,
>
>Bernd
>
>-- 
> Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer
> 
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Bug#825811: Missing component 'vgauth' in Open-VM-Tools of Debian 7.9 & 7.10 & 8.2 & 8.3 & 8.4 Guest

[Bernd Zeimetz]

Hi,

> VGAuth service was disabled in open-vm-tools 9.4.6 included in Debian 7.9
> & 7.10 & 8.2 & 8.3 & 8.4. This needs to enabled as soon as possible
> because it makes open-vm-tools in Debian less usable than VMware Tools.

first you should realize that you should not treat Debian point releases
as a different release on its own. This was the case for Debian 3 and 4.
For you there  should never be a visible difference between Debian 8.1
and 8.4.

open-vm-tools 9.4.6 was basically built with a simple 'configure; make;
make install' - and looking at the build logs like

https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=open-vm-tools=i386=2%3A9.4.6-1770165-8=1423826483

you will see, that configure did not complain about missing things, it
also just did not build vgauth. So I could not know something is missing.


To avoid such things, please test open-vm-tools in Debian testing and/or
unstable.


There is a backport of the last 10.0.7 release in wheezy-backports and
jessie-backports. Please use it instead of the package from the release.
Also if you are interested in using the latest open-vm-tools version in
a stable, please use backports. If possible I'll backport the current
version to stable and oldstable.

In stable Debian releases we'll only add bugfixes, no new features.


Best regards,

Bernd

-- 
 Bernd ZeimetzDebian GNU/Linux Developer
 http://bzed.dehttp://www.debian.org
 GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485  DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F

Bug#825811: Missing component 'vgauth' in Open-VM-Tools of Debian 7.9 & 7.10 & 8.2 & 8.3 & 8.4 Guest

[Yanhui He]

Package: open-vm-tools
Version: 2:9.4.6
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Subject: Missing component 'vgauth' in Open-VM-Tools of Debian 7.9 &
7.10 & 8.2 & 8.3 & 8.4 Guest



Hi,

Description of problem:

VGAuth service was disabled in open-vm-tools 9.4.6 included in Debian 7.9
& 7.10 & 8.2 & 8.3 & 8.4. This needs to enabled as soon as possible
because it makes open-vm-tools in Debian less usable than VMware Tools.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 9.4.6

How reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install open-vm-tools 9.4.6 package
2. Check for VGAuth service ($ ps -ef | grep -i vgauth)

Actual results: service is not running

Expected results: VGAuthService should be running

Please kindly fix this problem in debian.

Thanks in advance!

Best regards,
Yanhui