Como desinstalar o vmware-tools-foundation

Question

Estou tendo muitos problemas com isso:

Warning: RPMDB altered outside of yum.
** Found 21 pre-existing rpmdb problem(s), 'yum check' output follows:
kmod-vmware-tools-vmci-9.5.13.0-2.6.32.71.el6.x86_64.5.el6.x86_64 has missing requires of vmware-tools-foundation >= ('0', '8.6.0', None)
kmod-vmware-tools-vmxnet-2.0.15.0-2.6.32.71.el6.x86_64.5.el6.x86_64 has missing requires of vmware-tools-foundation >= ('0', '8.6.0', None)
kmod-vmware-tools-vsock-9.5.6.0-2.6.32.71.el6.x86_64.5.el6.x86_64 has missing requires of vmware-tools-foundation >= ('0', '8.6.0', None)
vmware-tools-core-9.4.10-1.el6.x86_64 has missing requires of vmware-tools-foundation >= ('0', '9.4.10', None)
vmware-tools-esx-kmods-9.4.10-1.el6.x86_64 has missing requires of vmware-tools-foundation >= ('0', '9.4.10', None)
vmware-tools-esx-nox-9.4.10-1.el6.x86_64 has missing requires of vmware-tools-foundation >= ('0', '9.4.10', None)
vmware-tools-guestlib-9.4.10-1.el6.x86_64 has missing requires of vmware-tools-foundation >= ('0', '9.4.10', None)
vmware-tools-libraries-nox-9.4.10-1.el6.x86_64 has missing requires of vmware-tools-foundation >= ('0', '9.4.10', None)
vmware-tools-plugins-autoUpgrade-9.4.10-1.el6.x86_64 has missing requires of vmware-tools-foundation >= ('0', '9.4.10', None)
vmware-tools-plugins-deployPkg-9.4.10-1.el6.x86_64 has missing requires of vmware-tools-foundation >= ('0', '9.4.10', None)
vmware-tools-plugins-grabbitmqProxy-9.4.10-1.el6.x86_64 has missing requires of vmware-tools-foundation >= ('0', '9.4.10', None)
vmware-tools-plugins-guestInfo-9.4.10-1.el6.x86_64 has missing requires of vmware-tools-foundation >= ('0', '9.4.10', None)
vmware-tools-plugins-hgfsServer-9.4.10-1.el6.x86_64 has missing requires of vmware-tools-foundation >= ('0', '9.4.10', None)
vmware-tools-plugins-powerOps-9.4.10-1.el6.x86_64 has missing requires of vmware-tools-foundation >= ('0', '9.4.10', None)
vmware-tools-plugins-timeSync-9.4.10-1.el6.x86_64 has missing requires of vmware-tools-foundation >= ('0', '9.4.10', None)
vmware-tools-plugins-vix-9.4.10-1.el6.x86_64 has missing requires of vmware-tools-foundation >= ('0', '9.4.10', None)
vmware-tools-plugins-vmbackup-9.4.10-1.el6.x86_64 has missing requires of vmware-tools-foundation >= ('0', '9.4.10', None)
vmware-tools-services-9.4.10-1.el6.x86_64 has missing requires of vmware-tools-foundation >= ('0', '9.4.10', None)
vmware-tools-vmci-common-9.4.10-5.el6.x86_64 has missing requires of vmware-tools-foundation >= ('0', '8.6.0', None)
vmware-tools-vmxnet-common-9.4.10-5.el6.x86_64 has missing requires of vmware-tools-foundation >= ('0', '8.6.0', None)
vmware-tools-vsock-common-9.4.10-5.el6.x86_64 has missing requires of vmware-tools-foundation >= ('0', '8.6.0', None)

Quando tento reinstalar o vmware-tools-foundation

sudo yum reinstall vmware-tools-foundation
Loaded plugins: product-id, security, subscription-manager
This system is receiving updates from Red Hat Subscription Management.
Setting up Reinstall Process
rhel-6-server-rpms                                                                                                                    | 3.7 kB     00:00     
No Match for argument: vmware-tools-foundation
Package(s) vmware-tools-foundation available, but not installed.
Error: Nothing to do

Quando tento instalá-lo, recebo esta mensagem:

Total download size: 211 k
Installed size: 1.2 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
vmware-tools-foundation-9.4.10-1.el6.x86_64.rpm                                                                                       | 211 kB     00:00     
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Error in PREIN scriptlet in rpm package vmware-tools-foundation-9.4.10-1.el6.x86_64

VMware Tools cannot install because it appears that another installation of
VMware Tools is already present. Please remove the previous installation and
then attempt to install this copy of VMware Tools again.

error: %pre(vmware-tools-foundation-0:9.4.10-1.el6.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
error:   install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping vmware-tools-foundation-0:9.4.10-1.el6
  Verifying  : vmware-tools-foundation-9.4.10-1.el6.x86_64                                                                                               1/1 

Failed:
  vmware-tools-foundation.x86_64 0:9.4.10-1.el6                                                                                                              

Complete!

Eu sinto que estou indo em círculos aqui ... alguma sugestão?

    

Answer 1

Eu encontrei o mesmo problema e finalmente encontrei uma solução:

1. Remova todos os pacotes VMware instalados via yum até yum list installed | grep vmware não mostrar nada:

   yum list installed | grep vmware
   yum remove vmware-tools-guestlib.x86_64
   yum remove vmware-...
   yum remove kmod-vmware-...
   ...
   

2. Remova arquivos e pastas encontrados por "locate vmware". Para mim foi:

   rm -rf /usr/lib/vmware-tools
   rm -rf /etc/vmware-tools
   rm /etc/init/vmware-tools.conf
   rm /etc/ld.so.conf.d/vmware-tools-libraries.conf
   rm /etc/modprobe.d/vmware-tools.conf
   rm /etc/selinux/targeted/modules/active/modules/vmware.pp
   rm /etc/dracut.conf.d/vmware-tools.conf
   rm -f /usr/bin/vmware-*
   rm -f /usr/sbin/vmware-*
   rm -rf /usr/share/doc/vmware-*
   

3. Instale vmware-tools-foundation como primeiro pacote:

   yum install vmware-tools-foundation
   

4. E finalmente:

   yum install vmware-tools-esx-nox
   

Espero que ajude você.

    

Answer 2

• Primeiro desinstale todos os pacotes vmware-tools-* (provavelmente um opcional, YMMV)
• então rm /etc/vmware-tools/locations (que é o que o script PREIN procura)
• depois disso, você pode instalar vmware-tools-foundation (e o resto do kit)