I tried backporting the upstream fix that came up in our discussion. It fixes the crash back to how it was in Xenial (no segfault). There still won't be much reason to run in non-VMWare envoronments, but this isn't what this was about.
It is working just fine. Preparing a MP to review and a cosmic SRU template for Bionic later on ... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to systemd in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1791220 Title: increased crash rate since 10.3 upgrade is available Status in VMWare tools: Unknown Status in open-vm-tools package in Ubuntu: New Status in systemd package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Hi, Crash reports like: vmtoolsd (11) /usr/lib/libvmtools.so.0.0.0+2839c → [stack]+1ecfc → /usr/lib/libvmtools.so.0.0.0+4eb05 → /usr/lib/open-vm-tools/plugins/common/libhgfsServer.so+ccf → /usr/bin/vmtoolsd+5e98 → /usr/bin/vmtoolsd+4ce3 → /usr/bin/vmtoolsd+3ea8 The cmdline of the failing process had: /usr/bin/vmtoolsd -n vmusr --blockFd 3 I have a disassembly thou which looks like: => 0x7fedb35b739c <Backdoor_InOut+28>: in (%dx),%eax 0x7fedb35b739d <Backdoor_InOut+29>: xchg %rax,(%rsp) 0x7fedb35b73a1 <Backdoor_InOut+33>: mov %rdi,0x28(%rax) 0x7fedb35b73a5 <Backdoor_InOut+37>: mov %rsi,0x20(%rax) 0x7fedb35b73a9 <Backdoor_InOut+41>: mov %rdx,0x18(%rax) 0x7fedb35b73ad <Backdoor_InOut+45>: mov %rcx,0x10(%rax) 0x7fedb35b73b1 <Backdoor_InOut+49>: mov %rbx,0x8(%rax) 0x7fedb35b73b5 <Backdoor_InOut+53>: popq (%rax) 0x7fedb35b73b7 <Backdoor_InOut+55>: pop %rbx 0x7fedb35b73b8 <Backdoor_InOut+56>: retq 0x7fedb35b73b9: nopl 0x0(%rax) 0x7fedb35b73c0 <BackdoorHbIn>: push %rbx 0x7fedb35b73c1 <BackdoorHbIn+1>: mov %rdi,%rax 0x7fedb35b73c4 <BackdoorHbIn+4>: push %rbp 0x7fedb35b73c5 <BackdoorHbIn+5>: push %rax 0x7fedb35b73c6 <BackdoorHbIn+6>: mov 0x30(%rax),%rbp We don't have much more yet. I filed an issue upstream [2] last week in case this showed up somewhere else as well, but haven't seen any response yet. Crash reports overview (might need ubuntu signin) are at [3] and one example is [4] [1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1784638 [2]: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/issues/284 [3]: https://errors.ubuntu.com/?release=Ubuntu%2018.04&package=open-vm-tools&period=week&version=2%3A10.3.0-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 [4]: https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/bff98ff07d389a1a92b6cd538a823c1e2ce1a193 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/open-vm-tools/+bug/1791220/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
