I am demoing a current version of vmware workstation downloaded last week and running on Windows 7 64 bit Host with an Ubuntu 11.04 32 bit guest. I went through the easy install using a current iso off the ubuntu site. Once installed and booted into the ubuntu guest I noticed the vmware tools were not running. Upon digging around I found the service failed. I went ahead and ran the vmware-config-tools.pl script again and posted the last bit of relevant output. I also dug through the syslog and found the output where the service failed.

 

I also noticed in 2 days of searching for answers that this comes up a lot, but I never see any resolution in the posts. Anyhow I am considering turning the debug flag on in tpvmlpd.conf but want to know more about where the debug output would end up.

 

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Creating a new initrd boot p_w_picpath for the kernel.

update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic initctl: Job failed to start Unable to start services for VMware Tools

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SYSLOG OUTPUT after logon and vmware service failure.

Jun 21 17:44:33 ubuntu tpvmlpd[17011]: bad device "/dev/**" given Jun 21 17:44:33 ubuntu init: vmware-tools pre-start process (16816) terminated with status 1

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Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Pat

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