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  1. Bug #776103
  2. Comment #64

Comment 64 for bug 776103

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Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn) wrote : Re: [Bug 776103] Re: package open-vm-dkms 2011.03.28-387002-0ubuntu2 fails to build against 2.6.39 kernels, due to missing linux/smp_lock.h

Quoting Nate Muench (<email address hidden>):
> I got results
> host-guest Copy-and-Paste: Still not working.
> Auto Screen Resize: Doesn't work
>
> @Serge
> I thought when you said you'd look at it, I thought you meant the patch.

I thought you said earlier that you were confident in the patch and wanted help with the packaging :)

> My original configuration works 100% fine (I've confirmed this with May), the patch is where work is needed. The reason everything is breaking is because OF THE PATCH.

Can you confirm that compiling the June release, with your packaging, compiled with older gcc (maybe built under natty), also works? The git tree has seen a lot of churn. Commits like 8bb81e03780f936a4d3f04def07e3d467bf30c01 (which admittedly was end of april) are very suspect as they change how open-vm-tools are used.

> THE PATCH IS WHERE WORK NEEDS TO BE DONE ON, NOT THE PACKAGING.

The patch may break things, but your bzr tree (as fetched today) was not in fact building for me.

Thanks for the feedback. Sounds like I'll need to find a version of vmware I can use for really testing, and per your advice I'll start by looking more closely at the patch.

-serge