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 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1836500 Title: Starting vm hangs after upgrading open-vm-tools from 2:10.3.5-7~ubuntu0.18.04.1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1836500/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
