** Description changed: upgraded from 13.10 to test 14.04 using do-release-upgrade -d upon upgrade, it seems that the upgrade for open-vm-tools failed with the following message. Setting up open-vm-tools (2:9.4.0-1280544-5) ... update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) update-rc.d: error: expected NN after start usage: update-rc.d [-n] [-f] <basename> remove - update-rc.d [-n] <basename> defaults [NN | SS KK] - update-rc.d [-n] <basename> start|stop NN runlvl [runlvl] [...] . - update-rc.d [-n] <basename> disable|enable [S|2|3|4|5] - -n: not really - -f: force + update-rc.d [-n] <basename> defaults [NN | SS KK] + update-rc.d [-n] <basename> start|stop NN runlvl [runlvl] [...] . + update-rc.d [-n] <basename> disable|enable [S|2|3|4|5] + -n: not really + -f: force The disable|enable API is not stable and might change in the future. dpkg: error processing package open-vm-tools (--configure): - subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 + subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.103ubuntu3) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-4-generic Errors were encountered while processing: - open-vm-tools + open-vm-tools E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) - upon googling, it looks like the installation script needs to be cleaned up so that this installs cleanly. - if this is not fixed, this could lead to issues with running 14.04 VMs - properly with VMware. + it looks like the following is the line(s) that need to be fixed. + + https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/trusty/open-vm- + tools/trusty/view/head:/debian/rules#L66 + + + see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=651031 for a report of a similar bug for a different package. + + + + if this is not fixed, this could lead to issues with running 14.04 VMs properly with VMware. since this should be a pretty easy fix, i'm requesting that this be fixed prior to 14.04 release especially given 14.04 is LTS. thanks.
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