https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698181 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698181#c0 Summary: open-vm-tools-2011.05.27-55.1: warning flood /var/log/messages Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.4 Version: Final Platform: VMWare OS/Version: openSUSE 11.4 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Other AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: haveaniceday@cv-sv.de QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- Created an attachment (id=432997) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=432997) dmesg of the system User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; de; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 SUSE/2.0.14-2.2 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 ( Virtualization:/VMware | Yes | Yes | http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/Virtualization:/VMware/openSUS... ) An update to open-vm-tools-2011.05.27-55.1 starts a vmtoolsd which generates permanent warning messages: .. Jun 6 09:52:55 vmsvc[2076]: last message repeated 29 times Jun 6 09:52:55 padkcellrep vmsvc[2076]: [ warning] [guestinfo] Failed to get vmstats. Jun 6 09:52:56 padkcellrep vmsvc[2076]: [ warning] [vmsvc] Error in the RPC receive loop: RpcIn: Unable to send. Jun 6 09:53:25 vmsvc[2076]: last message repeated 29 times Jun 6 09:53:25 padkcellrep vmsvc[2076]: [ warning] [guestinfo] Failed to get vmstats. Jun 6 09:53:26 padkcellrep vmsvc[2076]: [ warning] [vmsvc] Error in the RPC receive loop: RpcIn: Unable to send. Jun 6 09:53:55 vmsvc[2076]: last message repeated 29 times Jun 6 09:53:55 padkcellrep vmsvc[2076]: [ warning] [guestinfo] Failed to get vmstats. Jun 6 09:53:56 padkcellrep vmsvc[2076]: [ warning] [vmsvc] Error in the RPC receive loop: RpcIn: Unable to send. .. A fallback to version open-vm-tools-2010.12.19-3.3 shows no messages in /var/log/messages . Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Take a vmware guest system with openSUSE 11.4 2.Update to Virtualization:/VMware/openSUSE_11.4 open-vm-tools-2011.05.27-55.1 3.see /var/log/messages -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.