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FS#22145 - [open-vm-tools] Automatic screen resize broken

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by jeff gluni (gluni) - Sunday, 19 December 2010, 12:58 GMT
Last edited by Sergej Pupykin (sergej) - Wednesday, 13 April 2011, 14:50 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Upstream Bugs
Status Closed
Assigned To Sergej Pupykin (sergej)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
When starting the open-vm-tools the screen of the guest should resizes to the size of the VMware application. This is not the case anymore in the mentionned version.

Reverting to prevoius version 2010-10-18 of open-vm-tools solves the issue (including the downgrade of icu to version 4.4).

Tested on 2 virtual machines x86, VMware Workstation 7.13

Steps to reproduce:
Update open-vm-tools to latest version from a previously working virtual machine.

Package versions:
in open-vm-tools 2010.11.17-(1,2 and 3)
This task depends upon

Closed by  Sergej Pupykin (sergej)
Wednesday, 13 April 2011, 14:50 GMT
Reason for closing:  No response
Additional comments about closing:  and upstream
Comment by Sergej Pupykin (sergej) - Friday, 11 February 2011, 12:15 GMT
Is 2010.12.19-1 affected by this bug?
Comment by jeff gluni (gluni) - Friday, 11 February 2011, 18:53 GMT
yes it is. exact same behaviour.
Comment by jlr (jlr) - Sunday, 13 February 2011, 20:29 GMT
This is probably related. When starting vmware-user-suid-wrapper :

kernel : vmtoolsd[...]: segfault at 0 ip ... sp ... error 4 in libunity.so[...]
Comment by jlr (jlr) - Sunday, 13 February 2011, 22:10 GMT
vmtoolsd crashes in libunity because of a strcmp with a null pointer. This is because vmware-xdg-detect-de does not print anything when using an unsupported desktop environment.

I sent a mail to the upstream development mailing list.

Pending that, it could be useful to patch vmware-xdg-detect-de to print some string even when using something that is not supported.
Comment by Sergej Pupykin (sergej) - Tuesday, 29 March 2011, 21:45 GMT
is there some process with upstream? (btw, 2011-02-23 in community-testing)

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