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images/news/generic.jpgVMWARE USERS got a nasty surprise today when a recent software update turned out to contain an extortionate licencing bug.
According to a post on a VMware community forum, VMware ESX 3.5 Update 2 tipped up this morning with the message "A general system error occurred: Internal Error."
Digging into the system logfiles, specifically /var/log/vmware/hostd.log found the somewhat embarrassing "Who let anyone from the marketing department code anything?" explanation " http://msg.License.product.expired".
The bug only shows itself at system startup, and the workaround is turning off the ntp time updating daemon and resetting the system clock back a few days. µ
According to a post on a VMware community forum, VMware ESX 3.5 Update 2 tipped up this morning with the message "A general system error occurred: Internal Error."
Digging into the system logfiles, specifically /var/log/vmware/hostd.log found the somewhat embarrassing "Who let anyone from the marketing department code anything?" explanation " http://msg.License.product.expired".
The bug only shows itself at system startup, and the workaround is turning off the ntp time updating daemon and resetting the system clock back a few days. µ
