[Bug 698181] New: open-vm-tools-2011.05.27-55.1: warning flood /var/log/messages
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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698181 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698181#c zj jia <zjjia@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |zjjia@novell.com AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |prusnak@novell.com |ovo.novell.com | -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698181 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698181#c1 Pavol Rusnak <prusnak@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |dimstar@opensuse.org --- Comment #1 from Pavol Rusnak <prusnak@novell.com> 2011-06-13 09:31:04 CEST --- Dominique: we've just pushed the latest version 2011.05.27 to update channel in order to fix some security bugs. Now the users can see the following output. Have you seen this before? -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698181 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698181#c2 --- Comment #2 from Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org> 2011-06-13 11:13:24 UTC --- Haven't seen those loops yet, but also did not get around updating my guests to this open-vm-tools snapshot. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698181 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698181#c3 Markus Gaugusch <markus@gaugusch.at> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |markus@gaugusch.at --- Comment #3 from Markus Gaugusch <markus@gaugusch.at> 2011-06-14 12:31:25 UTC --- Also got the same problem (openSUSE 11.4, i386 hosted on ESXi 4.1) -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698181 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698181#c4 Marvin FourtyTwo <marvin24@gmx.de> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |marvin24@gmx.de --- Comment #4 from Marvin FourtyTwo <marvin24@gmx.de> 2011-06-27 09:33:52 UTC --- I don't see the rpc related messages here, but I get: vmsrc[1827]: [ warning ] [guestinfo] Failed to get vmstats This message is generated every 30 seconds! The problem is that open-vm-tools is compiled without procps support which leads to this annoying message (which is non fatal). Either compile the package with procps support or patch out the message from the source. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698181 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698181#c5 Urs Beyerle <urs.beyerle@env.ethz.ch> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |urs.beyerle@env.ethz.ch --- Comment #5 from Urs Beyerle <urs.beyerle@env.ethz.ch> 2011-07-06 05:43:04 UTC --- I'm also seeing this on OpenSUSE 11.3 with open-vm-tools-2011.05.27-0.3.1 Looking forward to a fix. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698181 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698181#c6 Cyrus Elder <elder@neonet.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |elder@neonet.org --- Comment #6 from Cyrus Elder <elder@neonet.org> 2011-07-11 20:38:29 UTC --- I am seeing similar message on OpenSUSE 11.4 with open-vm-tools 2011.05.27-0.3.3 on vSphere 4.1 Jun 30 01:26:06 techweb vmsvc[2705]: [ warning] [guestinfo] Failed to get vmstats. Jun 30 01:27:15 vmsvc[2705]: last message repeated 2 times Jun 30 01:28:15 vmsvc[2705]: last message repeated 2 times Jun 30 01:45:35 fiscal1 vmsvc[2228]: [ warning] [guestinfo] Failed to get vmstats. Jun 30 01:46:05 fiscal1 vmsvc[2228]: [ warning] [guestinfo] Failed to get vmstats. Jun 30 01:47:18 vmsvc[2228]: last message repeated 2 times Jun 30 01:48:18 vmsvc[2228]: last message repeated 2 times . . . Jul 11 15:45:33 vmsvc[2228]: last message repeated 2 times We have 4 OpenSUSE 11.4 guests running on vSphere, all 4 of them have the same messages in the warn log. All have the same version of vmtools. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698181 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698181#c7 Fernando Hartmann <fh@sadig.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |fh@sadig.com --- Comment #7 from Fernando Hartmann <fh@sadig.com> 2011-08-01 16:22:40 UTC --- This is happening in my 11.3 system too ! -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698181 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698181#c8 Stefan Botter <jsj@jsj.dyndns.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |jsj@jsj.dyndns.org Component|Other |Other AssignedTo|prusnak@suse.com |bnc-team-screening@forge.pr | |ovo.novell.com Product|openSUSE 11.4 |openSUSE 12.1 Target Milestone|--- |Final OS/Version|openSUSE 11.4 |openSUSE 12.1 --- Comment #8 from Stefan Botter <jsj@jsj.dyndns.org> 2012-02-27 11:27:10 UTC --- The messages are still there in openSUSE 12.1. Can this be fixed in time for 12.2? -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698181 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698181#c Pavol Rusnak <prusnak@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |prusnak@suse.com AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |dimstar@opensuse.org |ovo.novell.com | -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698181 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698181#c9 Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |haveaniceday@cv-sv.de --- Comment #9 from Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org> 2012-03-24 20:23:57 UTC --- Can you please try to create a config file /etc/vmware-tools/tools.conf with this content: [guestinfo] disable-perf-mon=1 => This should disable the entire code path, not only the error warning. If this does work for you, I will add this to the template conf file to be distributed (is a better option than trying to maintain a patch on the source) -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698181 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698181#c10 --- Comment #10 from Urs Beyerle <urs.beyerle@env.ethz.ch> 2012-03-24 20:44:19 UTC --- Works for me on 11.4. Many thanks! -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698181 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698181#c11 --- Comment #11 from Fernando Hartmann <fh@sadig.com> 2012-03-29 12:00:48 UTC --- (In reply to comment #9) It worked in 11.3 and 11.4, thanks. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698181 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698181#c Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |ASSIGNED InfoProvider|haveaniceday@cv-sv.de | -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698181 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698181#c12 Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED --- Comment #12 from Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org> 2012-03-30 20:33:03 UTC --- Submitted SR#112046; this will (hopefully) shortly land in Virtualization:VMware and in openSUSE:Factory (12.2 to be). The implemented 'fix' is, as described above, to change the default config file. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698181 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698181#c13 --- Comment #13 from Bernhard Wiedemann <bwiedemann@suse.com> 2012-04-06 21:00:08 CEST --- This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration: This bug (698181) was mentioned in https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/112902 Factory / open-vm-tools -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698181 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698181#c14 --- Comment #14 from Swamp Workflow Management <swamp@suse.de> 2012-05-02 12:08:29 UTC --- openSUSE-RU-2012:0577-1: An update that has four recommended fixes can now be installed. Category: recommended (low) Bug References: 698181,703959,743130,748517 CVE References: Sources used: openSUSE 12.1 (src): open-vm-tools-8.8.1-2.4.4 openSUSE 11.4 (src): open-vm-tools-2012.8.8.1-32.1 -- 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.
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