Bug#639767: open-vm-tools: Warning messages every 30s.

[Jim Barber]

Package: open-vm-tools
Version: 2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1
Severity: normal

Every 30 seconds I am getting two log entries written to syslog:

vmsvc[712]: [ warning] [guestinfo] Failed to get nic info.
vmsvc[712]: [ warning] [guestinfo] Failed to get vmstats.

This makes the /var/log/syslog file grow unnecessarily and tools like
logcheck end up spamming me about the messages.

Apparently the 'nic info' message is produced if open-vm-tools is compiled
using --without-dnet and the 'vmstats' message is produced if open-vm-tools
is compiled using --without-procps.

I can turn these messages off by adding the following to the
/etc/vmware-tools/tools.conf file:

[logging]
vmsvc.level=error

However that would turn off all other warnings so probably isn't a good
default to have.

Possible solutions I can think of to fix this are:

- Demote the message levels for these two messages from warning to debug.

- Link against the appropriate libraries.
Although for amd64 there seems to be specific check to turn off libproc
linking that might be there for a good reason?

I'm sure you can probably think of others.

Regards,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages open-vm-tools depends on:
ii libc6 2.13-16 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libfuse2 2.8.5-4 Filesystem in Userspace (library)
ii libgcc1 1:4.6.1-4 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.28.6-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libicu44 4.4.2-2 International Components for Unico
ii libstdc++6 4.6.1-4 GNU Standard C++ Library v3

Versions of packages open-vm-tools recommends:
ii ethtool 1:2.6.39-1 display or change Ethernet device
ii open-vm-sour 2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1 Source for VMware guest systems dr
ii zerofree 1.0.1-2 zero free blocks from ext2/3 file-

Versions of packages open-vm-tools suggests:
pn open-vm-toolbox <none> (no description available)

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Jim Barber
DDI Health

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[Daniel Baumann]

On 08/30/2011 07:29 AM, Jim Barber wrote:
> Although for amd64 there seems to be specific check to turn off libproc
> linking that might be there for a good reason?

it used to be that it didn't work on amd64, but i'll check this (and
other stuff), current behaviour is not acceptable, thanks for reporting.

(btw, note that the current package is far from optimal, it was merely
just an upload that 'builds' again with current kernels, much work left
to get it into shape...)

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