No, it doesn't really matter. It is just annoying to those of us who appreciate clean logs and systems. You could also simply write a line in the rsyslog config to discard it. That is actually where I went with it as it was the least change to the default system and most easily replicated in my environment. You can put the below in /etc/rsyslog.d/40-discard.conf then restart rsyslog and it should go away.
# Ubuntu Server has a bug that pops this message out every half hour: # "vmsvc[1070]: [ warning] [guestinfo] Failed to get vmstats." if $programname == 'vmsvc' and $msg contains 'Failed to get vmstats' then stop On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 4:05 AM WIll Salmon <will.sal...@ncl.ac.uk> wrote: > 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 2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6~precise2 in place of an out-of-date version of 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? > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1322897 > > Title: > syslog spam Failed to get vmstats. > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1322897/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to open-vm-tools in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1322897 Title: syslog spam Failed to get vmstats. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1322897/+subscriptions -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
