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

[Bernd Zeimetz]

On 03/17/2018 09:12 AM, Patrick Matthäi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Then the dependency still needs to get fixed in VMware Tools.

which won't help you as that systemd version is not in jessie and stretch.
(just fyi: bug reports to backports versions have to go on the backports
user list, not into the bts).


> 
> Am 17.03.2018 03:12 schrieb Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org>:
> 
>     Version: 238-1
> 
>     On Sat, 10 Mar 2018 09:29:46 +0100 Bernd Zeimetz <bernd at bzed.de> wrote:
>     > > 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.
> 
>     Actually this bug report it doesn't contain any actual information what
>     this supposed race condition in systemd should be. It's mostly
>     speculation on their part.
>     Anyway, they said they can no longer reproduce it anyway on bionic
>     which
>     ships the same version as unstable, so let's close this bug report.
> 
>     -- 
>     Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the
>     universe are pointed away from Earth?
> 
> 

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