https://christian.blog.pakiheim.de/tags/opensuse/Recent content in Opensuse on BAFMHugo -- 0.160.1enMon, 09 Sep 2013 19:15:53 +0000https://christian.blog.pakiheim.de/posts/2013-09-09_vmware-config-tools-pl-finished-with-could-not-find-parent-node/Mon, 09 Sep 2013 19:15:53 +0000http://christian.weblog.heimdaheim.de/?p=5128<p>Well, today I encountered a old problem (or so I thought). Basically a specific udevadm version causes the vmware-config-tools.pl script to error out like this:</p> <div class="highlight"><div class="chroma"> <table class="lntable"><tr><td class="lntd"> <pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code><span class="lnt" id="hl-0-1"><a class="lnlinks" href="#hl-0-1"> 1</a> </span><span class="lnt" id="hl-0-2"><a class="lnlinks" href="#hl-0-2"> 2</a> </span><span class="lnt" id="hl-0-3"><a class="lnlinks" href="#hl-0-3"> 3</a> </span><span class="lnt" id="hl-0-4"><a class="lnlinks" href="#hl-0-4"> 4</a> </span><span class="lnt" id="hl-0-5"><a class="lnlinks" href="#hl-0-5"> 5</a> </span><span class="lnt" id="hl-0-6"><a class="lnlinks" href="#hl-0-6"> 6</a> </span><span class="lnt" id="hl-0-7"><a class="lnlinks" href="#hl-0-7"> 7</a> </span><span class="lnt" id="hl-0-8"><a class="lnlinks" href="#hl-0-8"> 8</a> </span><span class="lnt" id="hl-0-9"><a class="lnlinks" href="#hl-0-9"> 9</a> </span><span class="lnt" id="hl-0-10"><a class="lnlinks" href="#hl-0-10">10</a> </span><span class="lnt" id="hl-0-11"><a class="lnlinks" href="#hl-0-11">11</a> </span><span class="lnt" id="hl-0-12"><a class="lnlinks" href="#hl-0-12">12</a> </span><span class="lnt" id="hl-0-13"><a class="lnlinks" href="#hl-0-13">13</a> </span><span class="lnt" id="hl-0-14"><a class="lnlinks" href="#hl-0-14">14</a> </span><span class="lnt" id="hl-0-15"><a class="lnlinks" href="#hl-0-15">15</a> </span><span class="lnt" id="hl-0-16"><a class="lnlinks" href="#hl-0-16">16</a> </span></code></pre></td> <td class="lntd"> <pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-gdscript3" data-lang="gdscript3"><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="n">The</span> <span class="n">vmblock</span> <span class="n">enables</span> <span class="n">dragging</span> <span class="ow">or</span> <span class="n">copying</span> <span class="n">files</span> <span class="n">between</span> <span class="n">host</span> <span class="ow">and</span> <span class="n">guest</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">a</span> </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="n">Fusion</span> <span class="ow">or</span> <span class="n">Workstation</span> <span class="n">virtual</span> <span class="n">environment</span><span class="o">.</span> <span class="n">Do</span> <span class="n">you</span> <span class="n">wish</span> <span class="n">to</span> <span class="n">enable</span> <span class="n">this</span> <span class="n">feature</span><span class="err">?</span> </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">no</span><span class="p">]</span> </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"> </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="o">!!!</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">EXPERIMENTAL</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">!!!</span> </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="n">VMware</span> <span class="n">automatic</span> <span class="n">kernel</span> <span class="n">modules</span> <span class="n">enables</span> <span class="n">automatic</span> <span class="n">building</span> <span class="ow">and</span> <span class="n">installation</span> <span class="n">of</span> </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="n">VMware</span> <span class="n">kernel</span> <span class="n">modules</span> <span class="n">at</span> <span class="n">boot</span> <span class="n">that</span> <span class="n">are</span> <span class="ow">not</span> <span class="n">already</span> <span class="n">present</span><span class="o">.</span> <span class="n">By</span> <span class="n">selecting</span> <span class="n">yes</span><span class="p">,</span> </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="n">you</span> <span class="n">will</span> <span class="n">be</span> <span class="n">enabling</span> <span class="n">this</span> <span class="n">experimental</span> <span class="n">feature</span><span class="o">.</span> <span class="n">You</span> <span class="n">can</span> <span class="n">always</span> <span class="n">disable</span> <span class="n">this</span> </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="n">feature</span> <span class="n">by</span> <span class="n">re</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">running</span> <span class="n">vmware</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">config</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">tools</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">pl</span><span class="o">.</span> </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"> </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="n">Would</span> <span class="n">you</span> <span class="n">like</span> <span class="n">to</span> <span class="n">enable</span> <span class="n">VMware</span> <span class="n">automatic</span> <span class="n">kernel</span> <span class="n">modules</span><span class="err">?</span> </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">no</span><span class="p">]</span> </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"> </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="n">No</span> <span class="n">X</span> <span class="n">install</span> <span class="n">found</span><span class="o">.</span> </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"> </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="n">Could</span> <span class="ow">not</span> <span class="n">find</span> <span class="n">Parent</span> <span class="ne">Node</span><span class="o">...</span> </span></span></code></pre></td></tr></table> </div> </div><p>I&rsquo;ve had encountered this before in the past, and before there was some explanation on the VMware forums, which I couldn&rsquo;t locate. Lucky me, the VMware Tools updater keeps modified versions of vmware-tools-config.pl around. So I ended up creating this short diff, so that I may find it in the future - if I still need it:</p>