[Bug 1836500] Re: Starting vm hangs after upgrading open-vm-tools from 2:10.3.5-7~ubuntu0.18.04.1

[Jonathan Saks]

> Do you have any info of the vmtools packages I first
> thought was the open-vm-tools but is not
>
> Open VMware Tools (CLI)
> ... (GUI)

I have to defer detailed packaging questions to others, but so far as I
can tell:

"Open VMware Tools for Virtual MAchines hosted on VMware (CLI)" is open-
vm-tools-desktop.

"Open VMware Tools for Virtual MAchines hosted on VMware (GUI)" is open-
vm-tools.

And the first requires the second.  See, e.g.,
https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=open-vm-tools and some of
the URLs it links to.


> As I wrote yesterday, I only installed the ... GUI package
> and both disappeared but it also worked, can the CLI package be the problem?

I suppose it could be but at this point from what I've seen it doesn't
appear to be.

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[Bug 1836500] Re: Starting vm hangs after upgrading open-vm-tools from 2:10.3.5-7~ubuntu0.18.04.1

[Jonathan Saks]

Hi, I’m a colleague of Oliver’s at VMware and was looking at the
internal bug he filed for this.  I installed Ubuntu 18.04.1 in a VM
under Player 1 and after running sudo apt-get upgrade within the guest I
got the same symptom that Lars reported.  However, similar to what
Christian reported in comment #1, I found that updating only open-vm-
tools did not cause the symptom.

Uncommenting the line WaylandEnable=false in /etc/gdm3/custom.conf as
described in the following link allowed the login screen to work
properly:

   https://askubuntu.com/questions/1149957/unable-to-login-to-account-
in-ubuntu-18-04-vmware-workstation-15-after-update

Lars, from your last update I'm not sure if you're still trying to work
with Ubuntu 18.04.1 but if so maybe you could try this same solution and
see if it clears the problem you're having there.  If that solution is
not sufficient, the link above contains additional information including
another link which might be helpful.

Regards,

Jonathan Saks

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