[Bug 1270503] Re: open-vm-tools install update-rc.d failure

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** Description changed:

  upgraded from 13.10 to test 14.04 using do-release-upgrade -d
  
  upon upgrade, it seems that the upgrade for open-vm-tools failed with
  the following message.
  
  Setting up open-vm-tools (2:9.4.0-1280544-5) ...
  update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
  update-rc.d: error: expected NN after start
  usage: update-rc.d [-n] [-f] <basename> remove
-        update-rc.d [-n] <basename> defaults [NN | SS KK]
-        update-rc.d [-n] <basename> start|stop NN runlvl [runlvl] [...] .
-        update-rc.d [-n] <basename> disable|enable [S|2|3|4|5]
-                 -n: not really
-                 -f: force
+        update-rc.d [-n] <basename> defaults [NN | SS KK]
+        update-rc.d [-n] <basename> start|stop NN runlvl [runlvl] [...] .
+        update-rc.d [-n] <basename> disable|enable [S|2|3|4|5]
+                 -n: not really
+                 -f: force
  
  The disable|enable API is not stable and might change in the future.
  dpkg: error processing package open-vm-tools (--configure):
-  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
+  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.103ubuntu3) ...
  update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-4-generic
  Errors were encountered while processing:
-  open-vm-tools
+  open-vm-tools
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
- 
  
  upon googling,
  
  it looks like the installation script needs to be cleaned up so that
  this installs cleanly.
  
- if this is not fixed, this could lead to issues with running 14.04 VMs
- properly with VMware.
+ it looks like the following is the line(s) that need to be fixed.
+ 
+ https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/trusty/open-vm-
+ tools/trusty/view/head:/debian/rules#L66
+ 
+ 
+ see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=651031 for a report of a similar bug for a different package.
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ if this is not fixed, this could lead to issues with running 14.04 VMs properly with VMware.
  
  since this should be a pretty easy fix, i'm requesting that this be
  fixed prior to 14.04 release especially given 14.04 is LTS. thanks.

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