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‎10-26-2014 09:04 PM

Problems with vm tools install in kubuntu 14.04

Hello All,

I have trouble installing vm tools in a kubuntu 14.04 vm. Running vmware workstation 10.0.1 build-1379776 on Win7 professional.

From the mounted CDROM I copy the tgz file, unpack and launch as instructions given.

In the end I get an error in the C-compiler:

/tmp/modconfig-PFgyC2/vmhgfs-only/file.c: In function ‘HgfsOpen’:

/tmp/modconfig-PFgyC2/vmhgfs-only/file.c:685:27: error: incompatible type for argument 3 of ‘HgfsSetUidGid’

                           current_fsuid(), current_fsgid());

                           ^

In file included from /tmp/modconfig-PFgyC2/vmhgfs-only/file.c:46:0:

Complete install screen dump below.

Is the above issue significant? The VM still seems to work.

What's the next debug step?

Thanks,

Gert

# tar xvzf VMwareTools-9.6.1-1378637.tar.gz

# ./vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-install.pl

A previous installation of VMware Tools has been detected.

The previous installation was made by the tar installer (version 4).

Keeping the tar4 installer database format.

You have a version of VMware Tools installed.  Continuing this install will

first uninstall the currently installed version.  Do you wish to continue?

(yes/no) [yes]

Uninstalling the tar installation of VMware Tools.

Stopping services for vmware-tools

initctl: Unknown job: vmware-tools

Stopping services for vmware-tools-thinprint

initctl: Unknown job: vmware-tools-thinprint

File /etc/pulse/default.pa is backed up to /etc/pulse/default.pa.old.0.

update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-36-generic

update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-32-generic

The removal of VMware Tools 9.6.1 build-1378637 for Linux completed

successfully.

Installing VMware Tools.

In which directory do you want to install the binary files?

[/usr/bin]

What is the directory that contains the init directories (rc0.d/ to rc6.d/)?

[/etc]

What is the directory that contains the init scripts?

[/etc/init.d]

In which directory do you want to install the daemon files?

[/usr/sbin]

In which directory do you want to install the library files?

[/usr/lib/vmware-tools]

The path "/usr/lib/vmware-tools" does not exist currently. This program is

going to create it, including needed parent directories. Is this what you want?

[yes]

In which directory do you want to install the documentation files?

[/usr/share/doc/vmware-tools]

The path "/usr/share/doc/vmware-tools" does not exist currently. This program

is going to create it, including needed parent directories. Is this what you

want? [yes]

The installation of VMware Tools 9.6.1 build-1378637 for Linux completed

successfully. You can decide to remove this software from your system at any

time by invoking the following command: "/usr/bin/vmware-uninstall-tools.pl".

Before running VMware Tools for the first time, you need to configure it by

invoking the following command: "/usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl". Do you want

this program to invoke the command for you now? [yes]

Initializing...

Making sure services for VMware Tools are stopped.

initctl: Unknown job: vmware-tools

initctl: Unknown job: vmware-tools-thinprint

The module vmci has already been installed on this system by another installer

or package and will not be modified by this installer.

The module vsock has already been installed on this system by another installer

or package and will not be modified by this installer.

The module vmxnet3 has already been installed on this system by another

installer or package and will not be modified by this installer.

The module pvscsi has already been installed on this system by another

installer or package and will not be modified by this installer.

The module vmmemctl has already been installed on this system by another

installer or package and will not be modified by this installer.

The VMware Host-Guest Filesystem allows for shared folders between the host OS

and the guest OS in a Fusion or Workstation virtual environment.  Do you wish

to enable this feature? [yes]

Before you can compile modules, you need to have the following installed...

make

gcc

kernel headers of the running kernel

Searching for GCC...

Detected GCC binary at "/usr/bin/gcc".

The path "/usr/bin/gcc" appears to be a valid path to the gcc binary.

Would you like to change it? [no]

Searching for a valid kernel header path...

Detected the kernel headers at "/lib/modules/3.13.0-36-generic/build/include".

The path "/lib/modules/3.13.0-36-generic/build/include" appears to be a valid

path to the 3.13.0-36-generic kernel headers.

Would you like to change it? [no]

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.

make: Entering directory `/tmp/modconfig-PFgyC2/vmhgfs-only'

/usr/bin/make -C /lib/modules/3.13.0-36-generic/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. \

          MODULEBUILDDIR= modules

make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.13.0-36-generic'

  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-PFgyC2/vmhgfs-only/backdoor.o

  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-PFgyC2/vmhgfs-only/backdoorGcc64.o

  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-PFgyC2/vmhgfs-only/bdhandler.o

  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-PFgyC2/vmhgfs-only/cpName.o

  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-PFgyC2/vmhgfs-only/cpNameLinux.o

  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-PFgyC2/vmhgfs-only/cpNameLite.o

  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-PFgyC2/vmhgfs-only/dentry.o

  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-PFgyC2/vmhgfs-only/dir.o

  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-PFgyC2/vmhgfs-only/file.o

  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-PFgyC2/vmhgfs-only/filesystem.o

/tmp/modconfig-PFgyC2/vmhgfs-only/file.c: In function ‘HgfsOpen’:

/tmp/modconfig-PFgyC2/vmhgfs-only/file.c:685:27: error: incompatible type for argument 3 of ‘HgfsSetUidGid’

                           current_fsuid(), current_fsgid());

                           ^

In file included from /tmp/modconfig-PFgyC2/vmhgfs-only/file.c:46:0:

/tmp/modconfig-PFgyC2/vmhgfs-only/fsutil.h:92:6: note: expected ‘uid_t’ but argument is of type ‘kuid_t’

void HgfsSetUidGid(struct inode *parent,

      ^

/tmp/modconfig-PFgyC2/vmhgfs-only/file.c:685:27: error: incompatible type for argument 4 of ‘HgfsSetUidGid’

                           current_fsuid(), current_fsgid());

                           ^

In file included from /tmp/modconfig-PFgyC2/vmhgfs-only/file.c:46:0:

/tmp/modconfig-PFgyC2/vmhgfs-only/fsutil.h:92:6: note: expected ‘gid_t’ but argument is of type ‘kgid_t’

void HgfsSetUidGid(struct inode *parent,

      ^

make[2]: *** [/tmp/modconfig-PFgyC2/vmhgfs-only/file.o] Error 1

make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

/tmp/modconfig-PFgyC2/vmhgfs-only/filesystem.c: In function ‘HgfsInitSuperInfo’:

/tmp/modconfig-PFgyC2/vmhgfs-only/filesystem.c:234:15: error: incompatible types when assigning to type ‘uid_t’ from type ‘kuid_t’

       si->uid = current_uid();

               ^

/tmp/modconfig-PFgyC2/vmhgfs-only/filesystem.c:240:15: error: incompatible types when assigning to type ‘gid_t’ from type ‘kgid_t’

       si->gid = current_gid();

               ^

make[2]: *** [/tmp/modconfig-PFgyC2/vmhgfs-only/filesystem.o] Error 1

make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/modconfig-PFgyC2/vmhgfs-only] Error 2

make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.13.0-36-generic'

make: *** [vmhgfs.ko] Error 2

make: Leaving directory `/tmp/modconfig-PFgyC2/vmhgfs-only'

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