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  1. Bug #306835
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 306835

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Ian Justman (ianj) wrote : Re: vmware-guestd crashing

I picked up the source to follow up on Dimitry's suggestion.

First, I attempted to remove particular patch. Build fails because apparently, without the format string, it would generate a warning, and the compiler is being run so that warnings become errors. As such, the formatting string is necessary, so I used his other recommendation: pulling out the newline, leaving just a bare %s. Built it and it seems to work fine; the problem seems to manifest itself when guestd presents the VM's IP information to the host to give to the management interface. I never got this information with the bugged version of guestd with the newline still in (it crashes before I get this info in my browser; it probably crashes while it's in the act of doing so), while I received this information shortly after I fired up guestd.

--Ian.