This bug was fixed in the package open-vm-tools - 2:10.1.5-5055683-1ubuntu1

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open-vm-tools (2:10.1.5-5055683-1ubuntu1) zesty; urgency=medium

  * Merge from Debian unstable (LP: #1666430) Remaining changes:
    - Build without xmlsecurity support and xerces for now (universe)

open-vm-tools (2:10.1.5-5055683-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * [60d1417] Merge tag 'upstream/10.1.5-5055683'
    Upstream version 10.1.5-5055683
    Closes: #856330

    10.1.5 is a point release fixing the following issues:
    - Authentication failure is reported as unknown general system error.
      Attempts to authenticate through VGAuth service might result
      in an authentication-specific error such as an expired account or
      password. The authentication-specific error might then be incorrectly
      reported as an unknown general system error, similar to the following:
      CommunicationException: Failed to create temp file on target
      <IP_ADDRESS>: A general system error occurred: Unknown error

    - Unable to backup virtual machines with active Docker containers.
      This bug should not happen in Debian stretch at all, but might
      be relevant for backports.

    - Fix ISO mappings for CentOS/OracleLinux. Not relevant for Debian

    - Thaw Filesystems if snapshot commit message to VMX fails.

    - Add missing agent configuration files that were accidentally
      ignored by .gitignore

open-vm-tools (2:10.1.0-4449150-4) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Chris Glass ]
  * [d55b33f] Point the control file's homepage to the new one.
    The upstream open-vm-tools switched from sourceforge to github. This
    simply updates the link to reflect that.
    Signed-off-by: Chris Glass <email address hidden>

  [ Bernd Zeimetz ]
  * [f44a9a8] Drop duplicate udev rules.
    Timeouts are set in 99-vmware-scsi-udev.rules now,
    shipped by upstream.
    Thanks to Bernhard Schmidt (Closes: #851240)
  * [21df3fa] Install vgauth.service.
    vgauth is a service that allows authentication in the guest using SAML
    tokens. Necessary for guest operations initiated from the vSphere
    datacenter. (Closes: #855337)

open-vm-tools (2:10.1.0-4449150-3) unstable; urgency=medium

  * [17b04da] Override dh_md5sums for arch-dependent packages only.
    Thanks to Santiago Vila (Closes: #849876)

open-vm-tools (2:10.1.0-4449150-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * [fe8ae94] Stay with .gz as compression.
  * [afb2f52] Use systemd-detect-virt if available.
    Use systemd-detect-virt to detect VMware platform because
    vmware-checkvm might misbehave on non-VMware platforms.
    (RHBZ#1251656)
  * [1505d5f] Re-indent files properly.
  * [1b0b7eb] vm-support script needs lspci from pciutils.
    (RHBZ#1388766)
  * [1e2eb34] Make dpkg --verify happy now. (Closes: #847221)

open-vm-tools (2:10.1.0-4449150-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * [72150f0] Merge tag 'upstream/10.1.0-4449150'
    Upstream version 10.1.0-4449150
  * [d4743dd] Bump dh compat level to 10.
  * [acce982] Handle open-vm-tools subdirectory as shipped by upstream.
  * [9047555] Install upstream changelog.
  * [fafb845] Remove extra \ from md5sums file.
    See #843163
    dpkg: -V fails on files with \ in the name
    for details.
  * [1455af1] Refreshing patches.
  * [776971c] dh_autoreconf_clean doesn't need --sourcedirectory.
  * [d50714b] Stay with libssl1.0 for now. (Closes: #828476)
  * [a0c6696] Fix dkms.sh call for new directory structure.

 -- FJKong <email address hidden>  Wed, 01 Mar 2017 18:09:29 +0000