upstart fails to start vmware tools upon reboot

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Issue

  • The upstart process fails to start vmware-tools when servers is rebooted. Manually starting vmware tools using "/etc/vmware-tools/services.sh start" starts the tools properly.

  • Using initctl to attempt to start vmware tools It produces the below message:

[root@localhost ~]# initctl start vmware-tools
  initctl: Job failed to start

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5
  • vmware version is 9.0.5.21789

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