[SOLVED] Script to automate VMWare Tools Install Error: No such file or directory
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Script to automate VMWare Tools Install Error: No such file or directory
So I wrote a simple Bash script to try and automate the install of VMWare Tools for all of our RHEL Servers. I was doing multiple commands from the CLI successfully, so I'm trying to automate it. However I continue to get the following error output.
Code:
./vmwaretools_install: line 19: cd: /media/VMWare Tools/: No such file or directory
unmount VMWare Tools Install ISO Before Proceeding...
tar (child): *.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
./vmwaretools_install: line 28: cd: vmware-tools-distrib: No such file or directory
./vmwaretools_install: line28: ./vmware-install.pl: No such file or directory
Here is the code:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
echo
echo "Remove Old VMWare Tools First..."
echo
/usr/bin/./vmware-uninstall-tools.pl
echo
echo "Remove old VMWare Tools Directory and Create New Directory "
echo
rm -rf /tmp/vmwaretools/* ; mkdir -p /tmp/vmwaretools
echo
echo "Mount VMWare Tools ISO from vSphere now"
echo
read -p "Press [ENTER] to continue VMWare Tools Install Once ISO is Mounted..."
cd /media/VMWare\ Tools/ ; cp -R * /tmp/vmwaretools
echo
echo "unount VMWare Tools Install ISO Before Proceeding..."
echo
#umount /dev/sr0 /media/VMWare\ Tools/
eject /dev/sr0
cd /tmp/vmwaretools ; tar -zxvf *.tar.gz ; cd vmware-tools-distrib ; ./vmware-install.pl
In trying to troubleshoot, I've done the following:
Code:
head -l vmwaretools_install | od -c
0000000 # ! / b i n / b a s h \n
0000015
I've also deleted out #!/bin/bash line incase there is an extra space in there that I can't see and then put it back in and still the same error.
I've check permission and set the following:
Code:
chmod +x /root/scripts/vmwaretools_uninstall
ls -l rwxr-xr-x 1 root root
I noticed something odd, for some reason my bash script is being copied to /tmp/vmwaretools.
Line 19 in the code is the following:
Code:
19 cd "/media/VMWare Tools/" ; cp -R * /tmp/vmwaretools
So I can't figure out why its coping the bash script into /tmp/vmwaretools?
Because the cd failed but the cp -R * worked (i.e. it copied from your pwd rather than "VMWare Tools" as you were still in pwd when it got to the cp command.
On your original question when I do a test using either the double quotes or the escape (\) it works in a simple script for me.
That makes me wonder: Did you actually mount the ISO as /media/VMWare Tools before hitting return when you ran the script?
That is your script isn't mounting the ISO but rather asking you to do so then hit return. Presumably you are doing that mount in a separate session. Do you see it mounted when you run "df -h" after the mount? (Maybe you're mount is mounting it as /media/VMWare rather than /media/VMWare Tools because you didn't escape or quote in your mount command line?)
Because the cd failed but the cp -R * worked (i.e. it copied from your pwd rather than "VMWare Tools" as you were still in pwd when it got to the cp command.
I don't understand why the cd isn't working? Maybe because I have to go back to vSphere and click a button, "Install VMware Tools." That's why I have the read line in the script, so the end user has time to click that button, then press enter on the keyboard to continue the script. Otherwise during the vmware-install.pl it won't complete successfully because the VMware Tools ISO is still mounted.
When mounting the VMware Tools iso, it shows the following:
Code:
/dev/sr0 on /media/VMware Tools type iso9660 (ro,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,uid=0,gid=0,ohcharset=utf8,mode=0400,dmode=0500)
Last edited by JockVSJock; 10-30-2015 at 09:46 AM.
# cd /media
# pwd
/media
# cd VMware\ Tools/
# pwd
/media/VMware Tools
There is a mismatch between your original script and what you are mounting as.
Script has uppercase "W" after VM but what you just wrote shows you're mounting with lower case "w"
i.e. VMWare vs VMware.
Linux is case sensitive so it sees VMWare, VMware, vMware, VmWare etc... all as different names. If you are mounting with the lower case "w" then you should use the lower case "w" in the script.
Looking online, the script isn't having the issue, its the Bash shell. So I had to give the cp command a path to /bin/bash -c. Still not really understanding Globbing files, however if i keep doing these, I will figure it out.
thanks for you help
Last edited by JockVSJock; 10-30-2015 at 01:12 PM.
Looking online, the script isn't having the issue, its the Bash shell. So I had to give the cp command a path to /bin/bash -c. Still not really understanding Globbing files, however if i keep doing these, I will figure it out.
thanks for you help
None of that was the problem, the problem was your script was using an upper case W:
/media/VMWare\ Tools
instead of
/media/VMware\ Tools
Your debugging process is very odd...why didn't you just go straight to line 19 and look at why your cd was failing, since that's the part of the script that was failing???
Copy-paste that line from your script into the terminal, see if it fails, why it fails, fix it, and then make that change to the script.
Focusing on execute permissions and character dumps of the shebang makes absolutely no sense to me when the script is failing all the way down on line 19 with a VERY clear error:
Quote:
cd: /media/VMWare Tools/: No such file or directory
Which means either the ISO file is not mounted, or you have an error/typo in your mount location.
Last edited by suicidaleggroll; 10-30-2015 at 01:43 PM.
There was a globbing issue when it was running the ./vmware-install.pl. I believe this is because these commands are being ran from the Bash Shell Script Vs from the CLI.
I'm running the program as root, along with user and group is root.
There was a globbing issue when it was running the ./vmware-install.pl. I believe this is because these commands are being ran from the Bash Shell Script Vs from the CLI.
There is no difference when you run a command inside a bash script versus running it on the interactive bash shell.
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