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Bug 1223498

Summary: Regression: Unowned directory /etc/vmware-tools
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Component: open-vm-toolsAssignee: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity: unspecified Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 7.2CC: hhei, jingli, ldu, leiwang, ravindrakumar, shwang, yacao
Target Milestone: rc   
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Hardware: Unspecified   
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Fixed In Version: open-vm-tools-9.10.0-2.el7 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-11-19 09:00:28 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2015-05-20 16:31:12 UTC
Description of problem:

It looks as if the /etc/vmware-tools and /etc/vmware-tools/scripts
directories are not included in the RPM.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

open-vm-tools-9.10.0-1.el7

How to reproduce:

$ rpm -qlp open-vm-tools-9.10.0-1.el7.x86_64.rpm | grep /etc
/etc/pam.d/vmtoolsd
/etc/vmware-tools/guestproxy-ssl.conf
/etc/vmware-tools/poweroff-vm-default
/etc/vmware-tools/poweron-vm-default
/etc/vmware-tools/resume-vm-default
/etc/vmware-tools/scripts/vmware
/etc/vmware-tools/scripts/vmware/network
/etc/vmware-tools/statechange.subr
/etc/vmware-tools/suspend-vm-default

Additional info:

It seems like this is a regression vs RHEL 7.1.

https://errata.devel.redhat.com/rpmdiff/show/123560?result_id=3098879

Comment 2 Ravindra Kumar 2015-05-20 18:30:10 UTC
Oh well. Looks like, I introduced this issue in Fedora too :-(

Comment 3 Ravindra Kumar 2015-05-20 23:54:19 UTC
Filed bug 1223587.

Comment 5 ldu 2015-07-30 02:00:52 UTC
Verified the bug.

The bug related host version:ESXi 5.5 U2

The bug related guest version:rhel7 3.10.0-295.el7.x86_64

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install a guest rhel7.2 and install the open-vm-tools.
2.Log in the gust and execute the command:
[root@rhel7 ~]# rpm -qlp open-vm-tools-9.10.2-2.el7.x86_64.rpm |grep /etc
/etc/pam.d/vmtoolsd
/etc/vmware-tools
/etc/vmware-tools/guestproxy-ssl.conf
/etc/vmware-tools/poweroff-vm-default
/etc/vmware-tools/poweron-vm-default
/etc/vmware-tools/resume-vm-default
/etc/vmware-tools/scripts
/etc/vmware-tools/scripts/vmware
/etc/vmware-tools/scripts/vmware/network
/etc/vmware-tools/statechange.subr
/etc/vmware-tools/suspend-vm-default 

The /etc/vmware-tools and /etc/vmware-tools/scripts
directories are included in the RPM.
 
The test result: Verified.

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2015-11-19 09:00:28 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-2246.html