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copy paste not working in Oracle Linux 5.5 guest

Using VMWare Player v15.5.2 build-15785246 on Windows 10

After some issues with some project files in a VM (OS is Oracle Linux 5.5 , based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5), i restored the VM vmdk files from a backup.

After that, the copy paste function does not work.

I (re)installed vmtools several times, but no success. Mouse integration and the gfx driver works fine.

In the old VM (before backup) copy paste worked fine.

In the new one, no luck. I also restarted the VM several  times.

I'm out of ideas.

Where to look? Log files?

PS: As mentioned, copy&paste works if I restore the old VMDK files. I also have another VM running on the same host, with Windows 7, and there copy paste also works.

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Apparently VMware Tools 10.3.21 does not work correctly with this OS. So I installed 10.2.5 and it works.

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Apparently VMware Tools 10.3.21 does not work correctly with this OS. So I installed 10.2.5 and it works.

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So this is a bug report: VMware Tools 10.3.21 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.5 has broken copy/paste support.

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