Installing VMWare Tools fails on fedora14 with “ initctl: Job failed to start”
.everyoneloves__top-leaderboard:empty,.everyoneloves__mid-leaderboard:empty,.everyoneloves__bot-mid-leaderboard:empty{ height:90px;width:728px;box-sizing:border-box;
}
I managed to install VMware Tools in Fedora 14.0 on VMware Workstation 15.0.1 like some installation guides suggesting:
mkdir /mnt/cdrom
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
cd /tmp
cp /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-x.x.x-yyyy.tar.gz /tmp
tar zxpf /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-x.x.x-yyyy.tar.gz
umount /dev/cdrom
cd vmware-tools-distrib
./vmware-install.pl
but it failed and I got the the following output:
Creating a new initrd boot image for the kernel.
Generating the key and certificate files.
Successfully generated the key and certificate files.
initctl: Job failed to start
Unable to start services for VMware Tools
Execution aborted .
I had installed kernel,kernel-devel,gcc,perl,fuse-libs and nmap before installing VMware Tools.
Also,I uninstalled vmware-tools with vmware-uninstall-tools.pl and installed it again,but it did not work.
Some advice said that just removing /etc/init/vmware-tools-thinprint.conf and then running the following:
/etc/vmware-tools/services.sh start
But I did not find the vmware-tools-thinprint.conf in my virtual machine。
As I run the /etc/vmware-tools/services.sh start,I got the following:
Checking acpi hot plug [ 0K ]
Starting VMware Tools services in the virtual machine :
Switching to guest configuration: [ 0K ]
VMware Automatic Kmods : [ 0K ]
Guest vmxnet fast network device: [ 0K ]
VM communication interface: [ 0K ]
VM communication interface socket family: [ 0K ]
Guest filesystem driver: [ 0K ]
Mounting HGFS shares: [FAILED]
Blocking file system: . [ OK ]
Guest operating system daemon: [ 0K ]
VGAuthService: [FAILED]
I'm a newbie and hope someone can help me.
Thanks
virtual-machine
asked Nov 24 '18 at 3:09
YfalcomYfalcom
1
add a comment |
I managed to install VMware Tools in Fedora 14.0 on VMware Workstation 15.0.1 like some installation guides suggesting:
mkdir /mnt/cdrom
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
cd /tmp
cp /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-x.x.x-yyyy.tar.gz /tmp
tar zxpf /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-x.x.x-yyyy.tar.gz
umount /dev/cdrom
cd vmware-tools-distrib
./vmware-install.pl
but it failed and I got the the following output:
Creating a new initrd boot image for the kernel.
Generating the key and certificate files.
Successfully generated the key and certificate files.
initctl: Job failed to start
Unable to start services for VMware Tools
Execution aborted .
I had installed kernel,kernel-devel,gcc,perl,fuse-libs and nmap before installing VMware Tools.
Also,I uninstalled vmware-tools with vmware-uninstall-tools.pl and installed it again,but it did not work.
Some advice said that just removing /etc/init/vmware-tools-thinprint.conf and then running the following:
/etc/vmware-tools/services.sh start
But I did not find the vmware-tools-thinprint.conf in my virtual machine。
As I run the /etc/vmware-tools/services.sh start,I got the following:
Checking acpi hot plug [ 0K ]
Starting VMware Tools services in the virtual machine :
Switching to guest configuration: [ 0K ]
VMware Automatic Kmods : [ 0K ]
Guest vmxnet fast network device: [ 0K ]
VM communication interface: [ 0K ]
VM communication interface socket family: [ 0K ]
Guest filesystem driver: [ 0K ]
Mounting HGFS shares: [FAILED]
Blocking file system: . [ OK ]
Guest operating system daemon: [ 0K ]
VGAuthService: [FAILED]
I'm a newbie and hope someone can help me.
Thanks
virtual-machine
asked Nov 24 '18 at 3:09
YfalcomYfalcom
1
add a comment |
I managed to install VMware Tools in Fedora 14.0 on VMware Workstation 15.0.1 like some installation guides suggesting:
mkdir /mnt/cdrom
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
cd /tmp
cp /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-x.x.x-yyyy.tar.gz /tmp
tar zxpf /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-x.x.x-yyyy.tar.gz
umount /dev/cdrom
cd vmware-tools-distrib
./vmware-install.pl
but it failed and I got the the following output:
Creating a new initrd boot image for the kernel.
Generating the key and certificate files.
Successfully generated the key and certificate files.
initctl: Job failed to start
Unable to start services for VMware Tools
Execution aborted .
I had installed kernel,kernel-devel,gcc,perl,fuse-libs and nmap before installing VMware Tools.
Also,I uninstalled vmware-tools with vmware-uninstall-tools.pl and installed it again,but it did not work.
Some advice said that just removing /etc/init/vmware-tools-thinprint.conf and then running the following:
/etc/vmware-tools/services.sh start
But I did not find the vmware-tools-thinprint.conf in my virtual machine。
As I run the /etc/vmware-tools/services.sh start,I got the following:
Checking acpi hot plug [ 0K ]
Starting VMware Tools services in the virtual machine :
Switching to guest configuration: [ 0K ]
VMware Automatic Kmods : [ 0K ]
Guest vmxnet fast network device: [ 0K ]
VM communication interface: [ 0K ]
VM communication interface socket family: [ 0K ]
Guest filesystem driver: [ 0K ]
Mounting HGFS shares: [FAILED]
Blocking file system: . [ OK ]
Guest operating system daemon: [ 0K ]
VGAuthService: [FAILED]
I'm a newbie and hope someone can help me.
Thanks
virtual-machine
asked Nov 24 '18 at 3:09
YfalcomYfalcom
1
I managed to install VMware Tools in Fedora 14.0 on VMware Workstation 15.0.1 like some installation guides suggesting:
mkdir /mnt/cdrom
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
cd /tmp
cp /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-x.x.x-yyyy.tar.gz /tmp
tar zxpf /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-x.x.x-yyyy.tar.gz
umount /dev/cdrom
cd vmware-tools-distrib
./vmware-install.pl
but it failed and I got the the following output:
Creating a new initrd boot image for the kernel.
Generating the key and certificate files.
Successfully generated the key and certificate files.
initctl: Job failed to start
Unable to start services for VMware Tools
Execution aborted .
I had installed kernel,kernel-devel,gcc,perl,fuse-libs and nmap before installing VMware Tools.
Also,I uninstalled vmware-tools with vmware-uninstall-tools.pl and installed it again,but it did not work.
Some advice said that just removing /etc/init/vmware-tools-thinprint.conf and then running the following:
/etc/vmware-tools/services.sh start
But I did not find the vmware-tools-thinprint.conf in my virtual machine。
As I run the /etc/vmware-tools/services.sh start,I got the following:
Checking acpi hot plug [ 0K ]
Starting VMware Tools services in the virtual machine :
Switching to guest configuration: [ 0K ]
VMware Automatic Kmods : [ 0K ]
Guest vmxnet fast network device: [ 0K ]
VM communication interface: [ 0K ]
VM communication interface socket family: [ 0K ]
Guest filesystem driver: [ 0K ]
Mounting HGFS shares: [FAILED]
Blocking file system: . [ OK ]
Guest operating system daemon: [ 0K ]
VGAuthService: [FAILED]
I'm a newbie and hope someone can help me.
Thanks
virtual-machine
virtual-machine
asked Nov 24 '18 at 3:09
YfalcomYfalcom
1
asked Nov 24 '18 at 3:09
YfalcomYfalcom
1
asked Nov 24 '18 at 3:09
YfalcomYfalcom
1
asked Nov 24 '18 at 3:09
YfalcomYfalcom
1
asked Nov 24 '18 at 3:09
YfalcomYfalcom
1
1
add a comment |
add a comment |
1 Answer
1
active
oldest
votes
The kernel of your Fedora guest is too old. The support for Fedora 14 ended long time ago. Is there any specific reason you are using it?
Maybe you should try the new release 29 with kernel 4.19. It should Work out of the Box. Also, I recommend using the open-vm-tools package from official Repo, since VMware open sourced it.
Regards
answered Nov 25 '18 at 13:10
dschuldtdschuldt
961
Thank you for your valuable advice. I installed it successfully on another system. But the experiment I'm going to do requires a fedora 14 system, and I want to solve this installation failure. Thank you again for your help
– Yfalcom
Nov 26 '18 at 14:11
add a comment |
Your Answer
StackExchange.ifUsing("editor", function () {
StackExchange.using("externalEditor", function () {
StackExchange.using("snippets", function () {
StackExchange.snippets.init();
});
});
}, "code-snippets");
StackExchange.ready(function() {
var channelOptions = {
tags: "".split(" "),
id: "1"
};
initTagRenderer("".split(" "), "".split(" "), channelOptions);
StackExchange.using("externalEditor", function() {
// Have to fire editor after snippets, if snippets enabled
if (StackExchange.settings.snippets.snippetsEnabled) {
StackExchange.using("snippets", function() {
createEditor();
});
}
else {
createEditor();
}
});
function createEditor() {
StackExchange.prepareEditor({
heartbeatType: 'answer',
autoActivateHeartbeat: false,
convertImagesToLinks: true,
noModals: true,
showLowRepImageUploadWarning: true,
reputationToPostImages: 10,
bindNavPrevention: true,
postfix: "",
imageUploader: {
brandingHtml: "Powered by u003ca class="icon-imgur-white" href="https://imgur.com/"u003eu003c/au003e",
contentPolicyHtml: "User contributions licensed under u003ca href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"u003ecc by-sa 3.0 with attribution requiredu003c/au003e u003ca href="https://stackoverflow.com/legal/content-policy"u003e(content policy)u003c/au003e",
allowUrls: true
},
onDemand: true,
discardSelector: ".discard-answer"
,immediatelyShowMarkdownHelp:true
});
}
});
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
StackExchange.ready(
function () {
StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2fstackoverflow.com%2fquestions%2f53454844%2finstalling-vmware-tools-fails-on-fedora14-with-initctl-job-failed-to-start%23new-answer', 'question_page');
}
);
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
1 Answer
1
active
oldest
votes
1 Answer
1
active
oldest
votes
active
oldest
votes
active
oldest
votes
The kernel of your Fedora guest is too old. The support for Fedora 14 ended long time ago. Is there any specific reason you are using it?
Maybe you should try the new release 29 with kernel 4.19. It should Work out of the Box. Also, I recommend using the open-vm-tools package from official Repo, since VMware open sourced it.
Regards
answered Nov 25 '18 at 13:10
dschuldtdschuldt
961
Thank you for your valuable advice. I installed it successfully on another system. But the experiment I'm going to do requires a fedora 14 system, and I want to solve this installation failure. Thank you again for your help
– Yfalcom
Nov 26 '18 at 14:11
add a comment |
The kernel of your Fedora guest is too old. The support for Fedora 14 ended long time ago. Is there any specific reason you are using it?
Maybe you should try the new release 29 with kernel 4.19. It should Work out of the Box. Also, I recommend using the open-vm-tools package from official Repo, since VMware open sourced it.
Regards
answered Nov 25 '18 at 13:10
dschuldtdschuldt
961
Thank you for your valuable advice. I installed it successfully on another system. But the experiment I'm going to do requires a fedora 14 system, and I want to solve this installation failure. Thank you again for your help
– Yfalcom
Nov 26 '18 at 14:11
add a comment |
The kernel of your Fedora guest is too old. The support for Fedora 14 ended long time ago. Is there any specific reason you are using it?
Maybe you should try the new release 29 with kernel 4.19. It should Work out of the Box. Also, I recommend using the open-vm-tools package from official Repo, since VMware open sourced it.
Regards
answered Nov 25 '18 at 13:10
dschuldtdschuldt
961
The kernel of your Fedora guest is too old. The support for Fedora 14 ended long time ago. Is there any specific reason you are using it?
Maybe you should try the new release 29 with kernel 4.19. It should Work out of the Box. Also, I recommend using the open-vm-tools package from official Repo, since VMware open sourced it.
Regards
answered Nov 25 '18 at 13:10
dschuldtdschuldt
961
answered Nov 25 '18 at 13:10
dschuldtdschuldt
961
answered Nov 25 '18 at 13:10
dschuldtdschuldt
961
answered Nov 25 '18 at 13:10
dschuldtdschuldt
961
961
Thank you for your valuable advice. I installed it successfully on another system. But the experiment I'm going to do requires a fedora 14 system, and I want to solve this installation failure. Thank you again for your help
– Yfalcom
Nov 26 '18 at 14:11
add a comment |
Thank you for your valuable advice. I installed it successfully on another system. But the experiment I'm going to do requires a fedora 14 system, and I want to solve this installation failure. Thank you again for your help
– Yfalcom
Nov 26 '18 at 14:11
Thank you for your valuable advice. I installed it successfully on another system. But the experiment I'm going to do requires a fedora 14 system, and I want to solve this installation failure. Thank you again for your help
– Yfalcom
Nov 26 '18 at 14:11
Thank you for your valuable advice. I installed it successfully on another system. But the experiment I'm going to do requires a fedora 14 system, and I want to solve this installation failure. Thank you again for your help
– Yfalcom
Nov 26 '18 at 14:11
add a comment |
Thanks for contributing an answer to Stack Overflow!
- Please be sure to answer the question. Provide details and share your research!
But avoid …
- Asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers.
- Making statements based on opinion; back them up with references or personal experience.
To learn more, see our tips on writing great answers.
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
StackExchange.ready(
function () {
StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2fstackoverflow.com%2fquestions%2f53454844%2finstalling-vmware-tools-fails-on-fedora14-with-initctl-job-failed-to-start%23new-answer', 'question_page');
}
);
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
