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Autofit guest and copy/paste no longer working, cannot uninstall open-vm-tools-desktop due to run-vmblock issue #207
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Same issue here, how can I completely uninstall open-vm-tools? Thanks! |
Hi, Any news? |
Please check https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1639222 The issue (during the installation) was already reported and Ubuntu 17.10 should have the fix. What distro are you using? |
The issue is not yet fixed in Ubuntu or Debian. I just reported the issue at Debian (upstream for Ubuntu): https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=886191 @userID401 you can uninstall the package by editing the file /var/lib/dpkg/info/open-vm-tools-desktop.prerm to remove the quotes:
However, the package issue is not related to any issues with autofit guest and copy/paste. Can you elaborate what those issues are? Do you have the
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I have some issue also, on the Kali Linux 2017.3 and VMware Fusion 10.1.1
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@aekv for what its worth, same issue. I was able to remove it with @oliverkurth's solution, but that doesn't help get copy and pasta working! |
As long as the bugs at Debian and Ubuntu aren't fixed, you can enable and start vmblock-fuse manually:
Check the status with |
As title says guest tools functionality had been wonky for a while so I decided to reinstall open-vm-tools/desktop, now apt remove errors out with:
First encountered the issue with 10.1.10, tried updating to 15 which I can do successfully but the issue persists.
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