[Bug 1322897] Re: syslog spam Failed to get vmstats.

[WIll Salmon]

Thanks. At least it's useful to know that the message can be ignored as
it comes out EVERY 30 SECONDS (not every 30 min) !!

I found that the suggested rsyslog /etc/rsyslog.d/40-discard.conf did
not work (on Ubuntu 12.04.5 with Trusty kernel and rsyslog version
5.8.6-1ubuntu8.9), so I used the file below instead - see :
http://www.rsyslog.com/discarding-unwanted-messages/

# Discard unwanted message from vmtoolsd
# Ubuntu open-vm-tools-lts-trusty has bug that writes message every 30sec:
# "vmsvc[1070]: [ warning] [guestinfo] Failed to get vmstats."
#
# See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1322897
#
:msg, contains, "[ warning] [guestinfo] Failed to get vmstats." ~

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[Bug 1322897] Re: syslog spam Failed to get vmstats.

[WIll Salmon]

I have just installed open-vm-tools-lts-trusty version:
2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6~precise2  in place of an out-of-date version of
VMware Tools and everything seems to be working fine except for these
syslog messages every 30 seconds :

"vmsvc[]: [ warning] [guestinfo] Failed to get vmstats."

Can anyone tell me if this bug matters? 
Is it just annoying messages in syslog or is something really not working?
What do the syslog messages really mean?

Could this fix PLEASE be added to trusty as we're not permitted to use
personal packages archives as an O/S code source?

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