I'm not sure what's going on but after VMWare Player prompted me to update my VMWare Tools in Ubuntu, it didn't update successfully. Now if I click on Player -> Manage, I see "(Stopping VMWare Tools installation)" but it's greyed out, and I can't cancel it or redo the installation.
How can I reinstall VMWare Tools properly? There is a vmware-tools-distrib on the desktop. I have gone into it and tried "sudo ./vmware-install.pl - d", and it will finish installing with no error message. After I reboot though, I still see the greyed out "(Stopping VMWare Tools installation)" under Player -> Manage.
Update: I have restarted Vmware Player, deleted the old vmware-tools-distrib folder, restarted the Vmware Tools installation process, and everything finished as expected, but I still do not have shared folders back. They just disappeared under /mnt/hgfs. Any ideas?
Update: another page says vmware tools is supposed to have added the following in fstab, but I don't have it:
.host:/ /mnt/hgfs vmhgfs defaults,ttl=5 0 0