This bug was fixed in the package open-vm-tools -
2:10.3.5-7~ubuntu0.18.04.1
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open-vm-tools (2:10.3.5-7~ubuntu0.18.04.1) bionic; urgency=medium
* Backport recent open-vm-tools (LP: #1813944)
- also adresses handling of quiesced snapshot failures (LP: #1814832)
- also adresses issues with resolutionKMS plugins sometimes fails to
load at boot (LP: #1818473)
open-vm-tools (2:10.3.5-7) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Christian Ehrhardt ]
* [71b468f] make vgauth service execution more reliable.
Since d3d47039 "Start vgauth before vmtoolsd" there is a potential race
of starting vgauth so early that it might have issues. This was
discussed back in the day in [1] to [2], but confirmed to be ok by
VMWare.
We were all somewhat convinced by this, but a bad feeling remained not
only with me but also with Bernd [4].
A recent SRU review denial made me rethink all of it and I think we can
make it safer without thwarting the purpose of the original change.
Note: Disambiguation of service names used below:
vgauth - open-vm-tools.vgauth.service
vmtoolsd - open-vm-tools.service
fs - systemd-remount-fs.service
tmp - systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
cloud-init - cloud-init-local.service
Currently we have these dependency requirements:
- vgauth should be before vmtoolsd
- cloud init should be before vmtoolsd
- cloud init has to be really early in general
- therefore this is using DefaultDependencies=No
That lead to this graph:
fs / tmp -> vmtoolsd -> cloud-init
And d3d47039 added it to be like:
fs / tmp -> vmtoolsd -> cloud-init
^
vgauth --|
But there is no need to have vgauth without any pre-dependencies at all.
It is only needed to be "before" vmtoolsd, therefore we can make it:
fs / tmp -> vgauth -> vmtoolsd -> cloud-init
That will make execution of vgauth much less error-prone (even though I
have no hard issue to report) while at the same time holding up all
known required ordering constraints.
[1]:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1804287/comments/3
[2]:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1804287/comments/12
[3]:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1804287/comments/25
[4]:
https://github.com/bzed/pkg-open-vm-tools/pull/15#issuecomment-447237910
Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <[email protected]>
open-vm-tools (2:10.3.5-6) unstable; urgency=medium
* [43ec618] Correct and/or improve handling of certain quiesced
snapshot failures.
Thanks to Oliver Kurth (Closes: #921470)
open-vm-tools (2:10.3.5-5) unstable; urgency=medium
* [54cce3e] Start vmtoolsd after apparmor.service.
Github issue #17
open-vm-tools (2:10.3.5-4) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Alf Gaida ]
* [e13792d] udevadm trigger should not fail (Closes: #917642)
open-vm-tools (2:10.3.5-3) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Christian Ehrhardt ]
* [d3d4703] Start vgauth before vmtoolsd.
VGAuthService needs to be ready when vmtoolsd runs. Certain cases - e.g.
Site Recovery Manager failover - will need vgauth to be up.
Therefore add an After=vgauth.service dependency to open-vm-tools.service
To have vgauth be able start early - and not pull cloud-init back late - it
is also required to drop default dependencies which according to VMware is
fine to do so.
(LP: #1804287)
open-vm-tools (2:10.3.5-2) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Raphaël Hertzog ]
* [db2a364] Ensure vmwgfx module is loaded before start of vmtoolsd.
This avoids a failure to start the resolutionKMS plugin and it's
achieved through a drop-in snippet extending open-vm-tools.service
adding an ExecStartPre directive loading the module prior to
the start of the service. (Closes: #915031)
[ Christian Ehrhardt ]
* [e6e0ab8] d/rules: fix dangling symlink of vmware-user.
Back in 2:9.4.0-1280544-6 vmware-user* was moved to the
open-vm-tools-desktop package and some follow on fixes moved bits that
were forgotten like the man page.
(LP: #1807441)
There still is a symlink in /usr/bin/vmware-user that is forgotten in
the base package and broken unless open-vm-tools-desktop is installed.
Change d/rules to move the symlink as well.
Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <[email protected]>
* [13d22e5] Breaks and Replaces for moving vmware-user.
Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <[email protected]>
* [d56826a] Bump breaks and replaces to next version to be released.
Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <[email protected]>
[ Bernd Zeimetz ]
* [e4697c7] Fix race condition between open-vm-tools and
systemd-tmpfiles-setup.
Thanks to Jean-Louis Dupond (Closes: #914910)
open-vm-tools (2:10.3.5-1) unstable; urgency=medium
* [7061cb7] Update upstream source from tag 'upstream/10.3.5'
Update to upstream version '10.3.5'
with Debian dir 9315f58cab8ba1356c1e4aa77d714257dc0651f2
-- Christian Ehrhardt <[email protected]> Tue, 12 Feb
2019 09:55:41 +0100
** Changed in: open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Bionic)
Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released
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