I have noticed a ~ file being created after running the Linux installer for Workstation 12. This also appears to be occurring with Workstation 11.
Notice line 44. What is causing this? It is dangerous to delete, as it can delete your entire home directory.
This will delete the current user home dir.
rm -rf ~
This will delete only the "file" being created here.
rm "~"
Please advise.
- root@ubuntu:~#
- root@ubuntu:~#
- root@ubuntu:~# ls -hla
- total 356M
- drwx------ 2 root root 4.0K Mar 1 14:50 .
- drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4.0K Mar 1 09:43 ..
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.1K Feb 19 2014 .bashrc
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 140 Feb 19 2014 .profile
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 356M Mar 1 14:50 VMware-Workstation-Full-12.1.0-3272444.x86_64.bundle
- root@ubuntu:~#
- root@ubuntu:~#
- root@ubuntu:~# chmod +x VMware-Workstation-Full-12.1.0-3272444.x86_64.bundle
- root@ubuntu:~#
- root@ubuntu:~#
- root@ubuntu:~# ls -hla
- total 356M
- drwx------ 2 root root 4.0K Mar 1 14:50 .
- drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4.0K Mar 1 09:43 ..
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.1K Feb 19 2014 .bashrc
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 140 Feb 19 2014 .profile
- -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 356M Mar 1 14:50 VMware-Workstation-Full-12.1.0-3272444.x86_64.bundle
- root@ubuntu:~#
- root@ubuntu:~#
- root@ubuntu:~# ./VMware-Workstation-Full-12.1.0-3272444.x86_64.bundle --console --eulas-agreed --required --set-setting vmware-workstation serialNumber XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX
- Extracting VMware Installer...done.
- Installing VMware VMX 12.1.0
- Configuring...Traceback (most recent call last):
- File "/tmp/vmis.COwwSf/install/vmware-installer/python/lib/logging/handlers.py", line 73, in emit
- if self.shouldRollover(record):
- File "/tmp/vmis.COwwSf/install/vmware-installer/python/lib/logging/handlers.py", line 146, in shouldRollover
- msg = "%s\n" % self.format(record)
- File "/tmp/vmis.COwwSf/install/vmware-installer/python/lib/logging/__init__.py", line 630, in format
- return fmt.format(record)
- File "/tmp/vmis.COwwSf/install/vmware-installer/python/lib/logging/__init__.py", line 421, in format
- s = self._fmt % record.__dict__
- Installing VMware Workstation 12.1.0
- Configuring...
- [######################################################################] 100%
- Installation was successful.
- root@ubuntu:~#
- root@ubuntu:~#
- root@ubuntu:~# ls -hla
- total 356M
- -rw------- 1 root root 1.0K Mar 1 14:52 ~
- drwx------ 4 root root 4.0K Mar 1 14:53 .
- drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4.0K Mar 1 09:43 ..
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.1K Feb 19 2014 .bashrc
- drwx------ 3 root root 4.0K Mar 1 14:53 .config
- drwx------ 2 root root 4.0K Mar 1 14:53 .gconf
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 140 Feb 19 2014 .profile
- -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 356M Mar 1 14:50 VMware-Workstation-Full-12.1.0-3272444.x86_64.bundle
- root@ubuntu:~#