Recommended update for open-vm-tools

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2017:3179-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4

An update that has seven fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update provides open-vm-tools 10.1.10, bringing the following fixes and enhancements:

  • Fix setting the screen resolution under Wayland environments. (bsc#1054800)
  • Map certain PAM errors to VGAUTH_E_AUTHENTICATION_DENIED.
  • Fix timesync state to be uncalibrated when adjustment is larger than 60ms.
  • Fix a crash when the VSS provider is not installed.
  • Add support for the new copy and paste selection target named "text/rtf".
  • Previously Common Agent Framework (CAF) builds were linking against specific versions of PCRE and libiconv. That restriction has been removed.
  • Reverts a fix that was causing intermittent hangs during soft reboots of some Linux VMs.
  • Fix a problem that was causing VMs to freeze during snapshots. (bsc#1051627)
  • Fix unowned /var/lib/vmware directory, which was causing the vgauthd service initialization to fail. (bsc#1028866)
  • Fix a package dependency for open-vm-tools on libvmtools0. (bsc#1031968)
  • Fix a build failure caused by an upstream glibc change requiring the explicit inclusion of sys/sysmacros.h
  • Fix reporting authentication failures.
  • Make it possible to backup virtual machines with active Docker containers.

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
    zypper in -t patch slessp4-open-vm-tools-13359=1
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4
    zypper in -t patch slessp4-open-vm-tools-13359=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 (x86_64 i586)
    • open-vm-tools-10.1.10-8.3.1
    • open-vm-tools-desktop-10.1.10-8.3.1
    • libvmtools0-10.1.10-8.3.1
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4 (x86_64)
    • open-vm-tools-10.1.10-8.3.1
    • open-vm-tools-desktop-10.1.10-8.3.1
    • libvmtools0-10.1.10-8.3.1

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