** Also affects: open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Artful)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Trusty)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Xenial)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Trusty)
Status: New => In Progress
** Changed in: open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Xenial)
Status: New => In Progress
** Changed in: open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Artful)
Status: New => In Progress
** Changed in: open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Trusty)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Dariusz Gadomski (dgadomski)
** Changed in: open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Xenial)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Dariusz Gadomski (dgadomski)
** Changed in: open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Artful)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Dariusz Gadomski (dgadomski)
** Description changed:
[Impact]
- * The default tools.conf template shipped with the Ubuntu package is
+ * The default tools.conf template shipped with the Ubuntu package is
useless - it gets cleared on the first run as it contains an
unrecognized content.
[Test Case]
- * Install open-vm-tools.
- * Check contents of /etc/vmware-tools/tools.conf.
- * Start vmtoolsd service e.g. by systemctl start open-vm-tools.
- * Check tools.conf contents again.
+ * Install open-vm-tools.
+ * Check contents of /etc/vmware-tools/tools.conf.
+ * Start vmtoolsd service e.g. by systemctl start open-vm-tools.
+ * Check tools.conf contents again.
Expected result:
Config is read an left untouched.
Actual result:
Config file is cleared.
[Regression Potential]
- * If any of the parameters in the template is set to a non-default value
+ * If any of the parameters in the template is set to a non-default value
the behaviour of vmtoolsd may change slightly (e.g. different log verbosity,
log target - file vs. syslog).
+ But people will get the usual conffile changed prompts, so those who
modified it will have to consciously decide which makes it safe.
[Other Info]
-
- * Original bug description:
+
+ * Original bug description:
The tools.conf template shipped with Ubuntu (debian/local/tools.conf) is
incorrect.
It's current contents:
bindir = "/usr/bin"
do not mean anything to open-vm-tools - it's not interpreted in any way by
vmtoolsd.
Moreover, on the first launch this content is cleared by a piece of code
doing a "config upgrade".
I believe replacing it with a more meaningful content is necessary.
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incorrect tools.conf template is shipped with Ubuntu
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