I tried the .vmx mod, renaming the .so 's and even the script by smuthali (with a few changes for file locations). None of those did the trick.
I was seeing
Unable to collect IPv4 routing table
Unable to collect IPv4 routing table
vmsvc[712]: [ warning] [guestinfo] Failed to get nic info.
spat out together every 30 seconds.
The following worked for me, and may shed some light on the root cause:
Every 30 seconds I am getting two log entries written to syslog:
vmsvc[712]: [ warning] [guestinfo] Failed to get nic info.
vmsvc[712]: [ warning] [guestinfo] Failed to get vmstats.
This makes the /var/log/syslog file grow unnecessarily and tools like
logcheck end up spamming me about the messages.
Apparently the 'nic info' message is produced if open-vm-tools is compiled
using --without-dnet and the 'vmstats' message is produced if open-vm-tools
is compiled using --without-procps.
I can turn these messages off by adding the following to the
/etc/vmware-tools/tools.conf file:
[logging]
vmsvc.level=error
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=639767
the /etc/vmware-tools/tools.conf fix worked for me.