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FS#55150 - [open-vm-tools] /lib is removed after installation

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Julian Xhokaxhiu (JulianXhokaxhiu) - Tuesday, 15 August 2017, 08:42 GMT
Last edited by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Tuesday, 15 August 2017, 14:25 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Critical
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
I noticed that yesterday and also today, a new updated was pushed. On both updates my /lib directory was removed. This basically broke the operations on my machine as the network interface was not able to be loaded ( at least this was my side effect ). Please fix it.

Additional info:
* package version(s)
- 6:10.1.10-1
- 6:10.1.10-2
* config and/or log files etc.


Steps to reproduce:
1 - pacman -Syu ( if you have open-vm-tools already installed ) or
2 - pacman -S open-vm-tools
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Closed by  Doug Newgard (Scimmia)
Tuesday, 15 August 2017, 14:25 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  You remove your /lib symlink, everything goes to hell. That's expected.
Comment by Christian Hesse (eworm) - Tuesday, 15 August 2017, 08:55 GMT
This is nothing expected. Did you install the first update with force (pacman option --force)?
Comment by Julian Xhokaxhiu (JulianXhokaxhiu) - Tuesday, 15 August 2017, 10:53 GMT
No I did not. During the update process, it complained about a conflict with /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/99-vmware-scsi-udev.rules.

So I renamed the file, and I run again the update process. Everything went "fine", then I rebooted the machine and I found out I was without network. Also the Docker Engine was not running. Therefore I started to check references of libraries and crashes, and I found out about the folder removal.

I know it's not expected, although it happens, and it's worth for the community to know it before someone else goes in the same trouble as me.
Comment by Christian Hesse (eworm) - Tuesday, 15 August 2017, 11:04 GMT
After removing (/usr)/lib/udev/rules.d/99-vmware-scsi-udev.rules pacman should still complain about conflicting /lib.

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