Bug#888955: open-vm-tools.service 10.2.0 does not start on boot on jessie/stretch/etc

2018-03-17 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 03/17/2018 09:12 AM, Patrick Matthäi wrote: > Hi, > > Then the dependency still needs to get fixed in VMware Tools. which won't help you as that systemd version is not in jessie and stretch. (just fyi: bug reports to backports versions have to go on the backports user list, not into the

Bug#888955: open-vm-tools.service 10.2.0 does not start on boot on jessie/stretch/etc

2018-03-10 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
> Why does it need to run before cloud-init i.e. why does cloud-init need > open-vm-tools? because cloud-init pulls the configuration it should apply from vmtoolsd. But that is not the bug here and nothing that needs to be changed. If you would finally read

Bug#888955: open-vm-tools.service 10.2.0 does not start on boot on jessie/stretch/etc

2018-03-09 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 10.03.2018 um 01:39 schrieb Bernd Zeimetz: > Hi, > > because it needs to run before cloud-init. Why does it need to run before cloud-init i.e. why does cloud-init need open-vm-tools? Feel free to point me to the relevant parts of the bug report which explain that. -- Why is it that all of

Bug#888955: open-vm-tools.service 10.2.0 does not start on boot on jessie/stretch/etc

2018-03-09 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hi, because it needs to run before cloud-init. Please read free Ubuntu bug I've linked, most details are discussed there. Thanks, Bernd Am 10. März 2018 00:22:32 MEZ schrieb Michael Biebl : >On Fri, 2 Feb 2018 09:31:28 +0100 =?UTF-8?Q?Patrick_Matth=c3=a4i?= > >for >the

Bug#888955: open-vm-tools.service 10.2.0 does not start on boot on jessie/stretch/etc

2018-03-09 Thread Michael Biebl
On Fri, 2 Feb 2018 09:31:28 +0100 =?UTF-8?Q?Patrick_Matth=c3=a4i?= > for the public: > systemd does not start open-vm-tools at all in this scenario. If you > configure open-vm-tools.service to use DefaultDependencies=yes instead > of =no, it works as a workaround. Why does open-vm-tools.service

Bug#888955: open-vm-tools.service 10.2.0 does not start on boot on jessie/stretch/etc

2018-03-09 Thread Michael Biebl
On Wed, 31 Jan 2018 16:06:16 +0100 =?UTF-8?Q?Patrick_Matth=c3=a4i?= wrote: > Package: open-vm-tools > Version: 2:10.2.0-2 > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > here all systems on vSphere 6.0/6.5 fail to start open-vm-tools.service > on boot. > The only thing I