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regarding open-vm-tools: bad interaction between vmxnet and initramfs
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Package: open-vm-tools
Version: 2008.11.18-130226-1
Severity: normal
Not sure on bug severity -- this is arguably not really a problem
with open-vm-tools itself, but is a problem that can be fixed there.
Feel free to reset it without any worry that I'd be upset.
We were having trouble with the open-vm-tools init script not properly
initializing the network. It would unload the regular network driver,
but when it loaded vmxnet, it didn't initialize. Today, I finally
tracked this problem down to how we were building initramfs images.
We build initramfs images on our systems with the "dep" option, which
includes all modules that appear to be necessary on the running system.
Whatever algorithm it uses recongnizes vmxnet if open-vm-modules is
already installed on the system and includes it in the initramfs image.
Then, when the system boots, it loads both network drivers. vmxnet sees
that the other network driver is loaded and presumably disables itself;
at least, it doesn't seem to do anything beyond say that it's loaded.
Then, when the open-vm-tools init script unloads the regular network
driver and loads vmxnet, vmxnet is already loaded, doesn't reinitialize,
and the system ends up with no network.
The workaround I tested and confirmed today is to unload vmxnet in the
init script as well. In other words, right before modprobe -r pcnet32,
add modprobe -r vmxnet. This is harmless if it's not already loaded, but
if it were loaded by the initramfs image, this will remove it and the
subsequent modprobe will load it and force initialization.
Better, of course, is to remove vmxnet from the initramfs image, but it's
hard to do that while using dep. As near as I can tell, there's no
blacklist mechanism, so we would need to explicitly list all modules that
should go into the image. This workaround was easier for us, and I don't
think it should hurt anything else. The only problem that I can think of
is that if you run open-vm-tools start twice in a row, with this change
it would reinitialize the network whereas before it wouldn't. That isn't
a problem for us; I don't know if it would be for anyone else.
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Source: open-vm-tools
Source-Version: 2008.12.23-137496-1
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
open-vm-tools, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
open-vm-source_2008.12.23-137496-1_all.deb
to pool/contrib/o/open-vm-tools/open-vm-source_2008.12.23-137496-1_all.deb
open-vm-toolbox_2008.12.23-137496-1_i386.deb
to pool/contrib/o/open-vm-tools/open-vm-toolbox_2008.12.23-137496-1_i386.deb
open-vm-tools-dbg_2008.12.23-137496-1_i386.deb
to pool/contrib/o/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools-dbg_2008.12.23-137496-1_i386.deb
open-vm-tools_2008.12.23-137496-1.diff.gz
to pool/contrib/o/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools_2008.12.23-137496-1.diff.gz
open-vm-tools_2008.12.23-137496-1.dsc
to pool/contrib/o/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools_2008.12.23-137496-1.dsc
open-vm-tools_2008.12.23-137496-1_i386.deb
to pool/contrib/o/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools_2008.12.23-137496-1_i386.deb
open-vm-tools_2008.12.23-137496.orig.tar.gz
to pool/contrib/o/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools_2008.12.23-137496.orig.tar.gz
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Daniel Baumann <[email protected]> (supplier of updated open-vm-tools package)
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Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 12:13:00 -0500
Source: open-vm-tools
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Architecture: source i386 all
Version: 2008.12.23-137496-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Daniel Baumann <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Daniel Baumann <[email protected]>
Description:
open-vm-source - Source for VMware guest systems driver
open-vm-toolbox - tools and components for VMware guest systems (GUI tools)
open-vm-tools - tools and components for VMware guest systems (CLI tools)
open-vm-tools-dbg - tools and components for VMware guest systems (debug)
Closes: 510935
Changes:
open-vm-tools (2008.12.23-137496-1) unstable; urgency=low
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* Merging upstream version 2008.12.23-137496.
* Also unload vmxnet module in initscript when starting as a workaround of
having vmxnet already loaded at initramfs stage. Thanks to Russ Allbery
<[email protected]> (Closes: #510935).
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