# Moving my comments from Bug #1639222
The following error messages appear during postinst of open-vm-tools-
desktop in Ubuntu 16.10:
```
Created symlink
/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/run-vmblock\x2dfuse.mount →
/lib/systemd/system/run-vmblock\x2dfuse.mount.
Failed to get unit file state for run-vmblockx2dfuse.mount: No such file or
directory
run-vmblock\x2dfuse.mount is a disabled or a static unit, not starting it.
```
According to the postinst script:
```
# Automatically added by dh_systemd_enable
# This will only remove masks created by d-s-h on package removal.
deb-systemd-helper unmask run-vmblock\\x2dfuse.mount >/dev/null || true
# was-enabled defaults to true, so new installations run enable.
if deb-systemd-helper --quiet was-enabled run-vmblock\\x2dfuse.mount; then
# Enables the unit on first installation, creates new
# symlinks on upgrades if the unit file has changed.
deb-systemd-helper enable run-vmblock\\x2dfuse.mount >/dev/null || true
else
# Update the statefile to add new symlinks (if any), which need to be
# cleaned up on purge. Also remove old symlinks.
deb-systemd-helper update-state run-vmblock\\x2dfuse.mount >/dev/null
|| true
fi
```
It seems that the deb-systemd-helper script unable to properly process
filepaths containing a slash. View the problem in a different angle it
is suspicious for /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/run-
vmblock\x2dfuse.mount file to have a slash in a filename in the first
place, which looks like a escape character for hyphen-minus(0x2d), isn't
the file should be named run-vmblock-fuse.mount instead?
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