Re: Problem with vmblock mountpoint when starting open-vm-tools

[Tanstaafl <tan...@li...>]

On 2014-02-01 10:40 AM, Tanstaafl <tan...@li...> wrote:
> After installing, I get an error when starting it:
>
>> dinkumthinkum : Sat Feb 01, 09:52:46 : ~
>>   # /etc/init.d/vmware-tools start
>>   * /tmp/VMwareDnD: correcting mode
>>   * /proc/fs/vmblock/mountPoint: creating directory
>>   * checkpath: mkdir: No such file or directory
>>   * Mounting vmblock ...
>> mount: mount point /proc/fs/vmblock/mountPoint does not exist    [ !! ]
>>   * Starting vmware-tools ...                                     [ ok ]
>> dinkumthinkum : Sat Feb 01, 09:52:50 : ~
>>   #

Ok, for some reason the gentoo package had the fuse USE flag disabled.

Enabling it and reinstalling open-vm-tools - which also pulled in 
sys-fs/fuse - solved the problem.

Sorry for the noise...