I managed to get into a state with VMware Tools on a Red Hat VM ( RHEL 5.5 if it helps ), where I couldn't start or use the tools, and yet couldn't install them either :-)
Having extracted the contents of the tools archive: -
VMwareTools-8.4.3-282343.tar.gz
to /tmp, I tried to run the installation: -
/tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-install.pl
and immediately got: -
A previous installation of VMware Tools has been detected.
The previous installation was made by the tar installer (version 4).
Keeping the tar4 installer database format.
You have a version of VMware Tools installed. Continuing this install will
first uninstall the currently installed version. Do you wish to continue?
(yes/no) [yes]
Error: Unable to execute "/usr/bin/vmware-uninstall-tools.pl.
Uninstall failed. Please correct the failure and re run the install.
Execution aborted.
which was less than helpful.
So I can't install the tools because I can't uninstall the tools - which I can't use in the first place :-)
A quickr Google of the exception ( Error: Unable to execute "/usr/bin/vmware-uninstall-tools.pl. ) led me to the VMware forums: -
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/221719
which, although it didn't appear to help the original poster, helped me in that the responder said: -
"...Also since "vmware-install.pl" is a link to "/vmware-tools-distrib/bin/vmware-uninstall-tools.pl"..."
Lo and behold, he's right - I ran the following command: -
/tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/bin/vmware-uninstall-tools.pl
and saw: -
Uninstalling the tar installation of VMware Tools.
Restoring the kernel initrd image.:
The removal of VMware Tools 8.4.3 build-282343 for Linux completed
successfully. Thank you for having tried this software.
I was then able to install the tools again using /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-install.pl and all is good.
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