VMware tools install for Ubuntu 7.10 Workstation 5.5 - detected x.org execution abort
 

Hi all,

This is for anyone that has VMware and has installed Ubuntu 7.10 guest.
I have Workstation 5.5, Win XP host, and i'm trying to do a VMware tools install for Ubuntu 7.10 (which was installed via "ship it" cd) using a and I'm getting an error "x.org detected".

I tried the install in Gnome, but it failed.
I read that you can install if you use a workspace for the install, so I switched to a workspace ctrl-alt space/F1, and logged in there and as root and tried it, but it still detects x.org

vmware-install.pl

It runs through the install questions, where I just accept all the defaults.

Then it asks to run a config script and I allow it and it asks:


vmhgfs module build for my system, and I enter n
then
vmxnet module build for my system, and I enter n
then I get the error

Detected x.org
problem extracting version of x.org
execution aborted


I'm still a newbie.
I suppose the X gnome system is still running (I have just switched away from its workspace), so I wonder if that is something to do with it.
I suppose I don't know how to get out of X and back into it if I needed to.

Anyway, I wonder if anyone else has had the intall tools issue on Ubuntu 7.10 and knows how to fix it.

Thanks

When you "enter n" you are telling it to not build those modules ? Have you tried allowing it to build those modules by entering "y" ? first thing I'd try.

David