Public bug reported:
Hi,
I just found out that the kernel init processes of vmware-player seem to
hold a handle on the boot console. The console is vt8 during a regular
splash boot.
The consequence at the desktop level is that, when I switch to another
user, vt9 is used because vt8 is unavailable and still displays the last
messages from boot.
This is not what the user expects. Conceptually, vt8 is the next free
console. As is the case on a system without vmware-player installed.
I found the culprit like this:
LANG=C deallocvt 8
VT_DISALLOCATE: Device or resource busy
deallocvt: could not deallocate console 8
/etc/init/vmware-player stop
deallocvt 8
now successful and vt8 appears empty (no more boot messages).
I have attached lsof output. Maybe the handle on /dev/console shown below is
the culprit?
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
vmnet-nat 4671 root 0u CHR 5,1 5052
/dev/console
Regards,
Jörg Höhle
** Affects: vmware-player-kernel-2.6.15 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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vmware-player module prevents use of console #8
https://launchpad.net/bugs/73569
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