Bug#888955: open-vm-tools.service 10.2.0 does not start on boot on jessie/stretch/etc

[Bernd Zeimetz]

> Why does it need to run before cloud-init i.e. why does cloud-init need
> open-vm-tools?

because cloud-init pulls the configuration it should apply from vmtoolsd.

But that is not the bug here and nothing that needs to be changed.

If you would finally read
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1750780

you would learn that there is a race condition that when PrivateTmp is
being used the necessary mounts are not always available.

The workaround for now is After=local-fs.target - which will result in a
dependency loop at some point, which is discussed in

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1750780/comments/11

basically all information is in that bug. Please read it.


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