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open-vm-tools package

dangling symlink /usr/bin/vmware-user

Bug #1807441 reported by Scott Moser
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Bug Description

[Impact]

 * An explanation of the effects of the bug on users and

 * justification for backporting the fix to the stable release.

 * In addition, it is helpful, but not required, to include an
   explanation of how the upload fixes this bug.

[Test Case]

 * Install open-vm-tools but not open-vm-tools-desktop
 * $ dpkg-query --show open-vm-tools
     open-vm-tools 2:10.3.0-0ubuntu1~18.04.3
   $ dpkg -S /usr/bin/vmware-user
     open-vm-tools: /usr/bin/vmware-user
   $ ls -l /usr/bin/vmware-user
     lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Oct 10 11:25 /usr/bin/vmware-user
       -> vmware-user-suid-wrapper
   $ ls -l /usr/bin/vmware-user-suid-wrapper
     ls: cannot access '/usr/bin/vmware-user-suid-wrapper':
     No such file or directory
 * That above is the dangling symlink which would be resolved manually by
   an install of open-vm-tools-desktop (but we don't want)
 * After the upgrade the source AND target of the symlink should be part
   of open-vm-tools-desktop so without it being installed it should not
   exists and with it installed it should exist and point to an existing
   file

[Regression Potential]

 * THe regression I could think of is if people manually fixed up the
   symlink and the update changing that, but this isn't meant to be a
   conffile or conf-symlink in that sense - so I'd not expect that case to
   be real and valid in the field.

[Other Info]

 * n/a

---
Original report

$ dpkg-query --show open-vmware-tools
dpkg-query: no packages found matching open-vmware-tools
$ dpkg-query --show open-vm-tools
open-vm-tools 2:10.3.0-0ubuntu1~18.04.3
$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/vmware-user
open-vm-tools: /usr/bin/vmware-user
$ ls -l /usr/bin/vmware-user
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Oct 10 11:25 /usr/bin/vmware-user -> vmware-user-suid-wrapper
$ ls -l /usr/bin/vmware-user-suid-wrapper
ls: cannot access '/usr/bin/vmware-user-suid-wrapper': No such file or directory

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: open-vm-tools 2:10.3.0-0ubuntu1~18.04.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-42.45-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-42-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.5
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Dec 7 19:17:38 2018
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=screen-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=C.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: open-vm-tools
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

See original description

Related branches

~paelzer/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools:lp-1813944-backport-10.3.5-cosmic
Andreas Hasenack: Approve
Canonical Server: Pending requested
git-ubuntu developers: Pending requested
Diff: 8267 lines (+4679/-322) (has conflicts)
53 files modified
ReleaseNotes.md (+105/-5)
debian/changelog (+97/-0)
debian/control (+3/-3)
debian/desktop.conf (+2/-0)
debian/open-vm-tools.postinst (+1/-1)
debian/open-vm-tools.service (+4/-0)
debian/open-vm-tools.vgauth.service (+1/-0)
debian/patches/debian/enable_vmhgfs-fuse_by_default (+3/-0)
debian/patches/series (+4/-1)
debian/patches/stable-10.3.5-quiesced-snapshot (+631/-0)
debian/rules (+4/-0)
dev/null (+0/-181)
open-vm-tools/ChangeLog (+2890/-0)
open-vm-tools/configure.ac (+7/-3)
open-vm-tools/lib/file/file.c (+14/-10)
open-vm-tools/lib/glibUtils/fileLogger.c (+17/-2)
open-vm-tools/lib/hgfsServer/hgfsServer.c (+2/-2)
open-vm-tools/lib/hgfsServer/hgfsServerLinux.c (+5/-5)
open-vm-tools/lib/include/buildNumber.h (+14/-0)
open-vm-tools/lib/include/conf.h (+26/-0)
open-vm-tools/lib/include/err.h (+18/-0)
open-vm-tools/lib/include/ioplGet.h (+2/-2)
open-vm-tools/lib/include/posix.h (+2/-8)
open-vm-tools/lib/include/rpcin.h (+10/-3)
open-vm-tools/lib/include/unicodeBase.h (+5/-0)
open-vm-tools/lib/include/vm_product.h (+3/-0)
open-vm-tools/lib/include/vm_product_versions.h (+12/-2)
open-vm-tools/lib/include/vm_tools_version.h (+13/-0)
open-vm-tools/lib/include/vmware/tools/guestrpc.h (+12/-1)
open-vm-tools/lib/misc/vthreadBase.c (+8/-1)
open-vm-tools/lib/nicInfo/nicInfoPosix.c (+18/-0)
open-vm-tools/lib/rpcChannel/rpcChannel.c (+126/-5)
open-vm-tools/lib/rpcIn/rpcin.c (+55/-11)
open-vm-tools/lib/sslDirect/sslDirect.c (+82/-15)
open-vm-tools/libDeployPkg/linuxDeployment.c (+43/-19)
open-vm-tools/libDeployPkg/linuxDeploymentUtilities.c (+2/-7)
open-vm-tools/libDeployPkg/mspackWrapper.c (+2/-1)
open-vm-tools/modules/freebsd/vmxnet/Makefile (+3/-0)
open-vm-tools/services/plugins/dndcp/pointer.cpp (+25/-3)
open-vm-tools/services/plugins/guestInfo/guestInfoServer.c (+60/-14)
open-vm-tools/services/plugins/guestInfo/perfMonLinux.c (+30/-0)
open-vm-tools/services/plugins/hgfsServer/hgfsPlugin.c (+10/-0)
open-vm-tools/services/plugins/vix/vixTools.c (+70/-4)
open-vm-tools/services/plugins/vmbackup/stateMachine.c (+3/-2)
open-vm-tools/services/plugins/vmbackup/syncDriverOps.c (+23/-0)
open-vm-tools/services/plugins/vmbackup/syncManifest.c (+40/-2)
open-vm-tools/services/plugins/vmbackup/syncManifest.h (+5/-1)
open-vm-tools/services/plugins/vmbackup/vmBackupInt.h (+3/-0)
open-vm-tools/services/vmtoolsd/mainLoop.c (+68/-1)
open-vm-tools/services/vmtoolsd/toolsCoreInt.h (+4/-1)
open-vm-tools/services/vmtoolsd/toolsRpc.c (+87/-1)
open-vm-tools/vgauth/lib/impersonate.c (+3/-3)
open-vm-tools/vmhgfs-fuse/cache.c (+2/-2)
~paelzer/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools:lp-1813944-backport-10.3.5-bionic
Andreas Hasenack: Approve
Canonical Server: Pending requested
Canonical Server packageset reviewers: Pending requested
Diff: 8267 lines (+4679/-322) (has conflicts)
53 files modified
ReleaseNotes.md (+105/-5)
debian/changelog (+97/-0)
debian/control (+3/-3)
debian/desktop.conf (+2/-0)
debian/open-vm-tools.postinst (+1/-1)
debian/open-vm-tools.service (+4/-0)
debian/open-vm-tools.vgauth.service (+1/-0)
debian/patches/debian/enable_vmhgfs-fuse_by_default (+3/-0)
debian/patches/series (+4/-1)
debian/patches/stable-10.3.5-quiesced-snapshot (+631/-0)
debian/rules (+4/-0)
dev/null (+0/-181)
open-vm-tools/ChangeLog (+2890/-0)
open-vm-tools/configure.ac (+7/-3)
open-vm-tools/lib/file/file.c (+14/-10)
open-vm-tools/lib/glibUtils/fileLogger.c (+17/-2)
open-vm-tools/lib/hgfsServer/hgfsServer.c (+2/-2)
open-vm-tools/lib/hgfsServer/hgfsServerLinux.c (+5/-5)
open-vm-tools/lib/include/buildNumber.h (+14/-0)
open-vm-tools/lib/include/conf.h (+26/-0)
open-vm-tools/lib/include/err.h (+18/-0)
open-vm-tools/lib/include/ioplGet.h (+2/-2)
open-vm-tools/lib/include/posix.h (+2/-8)
open-vm-tools/lib/include/rpcin.h (+10/-3)
open-vm-tools/lib/include/unicodeBase.h (+5/-0)
open-vm-tools/lib/include/vm_product.h (+3/-0)
open-vm-tools/lib/include/vm_product_versions.h (+12/-2)
open-vm-tools/lib/include/vm_tools_version.h (+13/-0)
open-vm-tools/lib/include/vmware/tools/guestrpc.h (+12/-1)
open-vm-tools/lib/misc/vthreadBase.c (+8/-1)
open-vm-tools/lib/nicInfo/nicInfoPosix.c (+18/-0)
open-vm-tools/lib/rpcChannel/rpcChannel.c (+126/-5)
open-vm-tools/lib/rpcIn/rpcin.c (+55/-11)
open-vm-tools/lib/sslDirect/sslDirect.c (+82/-15)
open-vm-tools/libDeployPkg/linuxDeployment.c (+43/-19)
open-vm-tools/libDeployPkg/linuxDeploymentUtilities.c (+2/-7)
open-vm-tools/libDeployPkg/mspackWrapper.c (+2/-1)
open-vm-tools/modules/freebsd/vmxnet/Makefile (+3/-0)
open-vm-tools/services/plugins/dndcp/pointer.cpp (+25/-3)
open-vm-tools/services/plugins/guestInfo/guestInfoServer.c (+60/-14)
open-vm-tools/services/plugins/guestInfo/perfMonLinux.c (+30/-0)
open-vm-tools/services/plugins/hgfsServer/hgfsPlugin.c (+10/-0)
open-vm-tools/services/plugins/vix/vixTools.c (+70/-4)
open-vm-tools/services/plugins/vmbackup/stateMachine.c (+3/-2)
open-vm-tools/services/plugins/vmbackup/syncDriverOps.c (+23/-0)
open-vm-tools/services/plugins/vmbackup/syncManifest.c (+40/-2)
open-vm-tools/services/plugins/vmbackup/syncManifest.h (+5/-1)
open-vm-tools/services/plugins/vmbackup/vmBackupInt.h (+3/-0)
open-vm-tools/services/vmtoolsd/mainLoop.c (+68/-1)
open-vm-tools/services/vmtoolsd/toolsCoreInt.h (+4/-1)
open-vm-tools/services/vmtoolsd/toolsRpc.c (+87/-1)
open-vm-tools/vgauth/lib/impersonate.c (+3/-3)
open-vm-tools/vmhgfs-fuse/cache.c (+2/-2)
Revision history for this message
Scott Moser (smoser) wrote :
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Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer) wrote :

Thanks Scott,
the target of the link is actually content of open-vm-tools-desktop.
Once that is installed the symlink is ok.

We don't want a dependency from open.-vm-tools to open-vm-tools-desktop.
Instead the right solution is to move the symlink to open-vm-desktop as well.

This is old - way back in 2014 2:9.4.6-1770165-2 moved the man page for example.
It always works vice versa as the -desktop package depends on the base.

Changed in open-vm-tools (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
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Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer) wrote :

patch is trivial and build worked, I'll be posting it to Debian ...

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Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer) wrote :

FYI: https://github.com/bzed/pkg-open-vm-tools/pull/14

Changed in open-vm-tools (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package open-vm-tools - 2:10.3.5-2

---------------
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 address hidden>
  * [13d22e5] Breaks and Replaces for moving vmware-user.
    Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <email address hidden>
  * [d56826a] Bump breaks and replaces to next version to be released.
    Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <email address hidden>

  [ Bernd Zeimetz ]
  * [e4697c7] Fix race condition between open-vm-tools and systemd-tmpfiles-setup.
    Thanks to Jean-Louis Dupond (Closes: #914910)

 -- Bernd Zeimetz <email address hidden> Tue, 11 Dec 2018 20:40:48 +0100

Changed in open-vm-tools (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Proposed package upload rejected

An upload of open-vm-tools to cosmic-proposed has been rejected from the upload queue for the following reason: "needs a separate SRU bug for the debian/desktop.conf addition. Also, upload fails to comply with https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebianMaintainerField".

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

An upload of open-vm-tools to bionic-proposed has been rejected from the upload queue for the following reason: "needs a separate SRU bug for the debian/desktop.conf addition. Also, upload fails to comply with https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebianMaintainerField".

Revision history for this message
Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer) wrote :

This issue was part of the regular backport of stable releases but I missed to put the full SRU prep and Templates to the bug, doing so now ...

Changed in open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Bionic):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Cosmic):
status: New → Confirmed
Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)
description: updated
Changed in open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Bionic):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Cosmic):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Revision history for this message
Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer) wrote :

Added an SRU Template here as well, while we did drive this more as an MRE in the past while I was cleaning up on Steve's request lets make all related bugs proper SRUs to be sure on the next round.

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Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer) wrote :

After improving on what we have found triggered by the first SRU review this is ready again.
Changes:
- Despite being an MRE in general all associated individual bugs have full SRU templates now.
- maintainers correctly updated
- The change to the vgauth Dependencies is now safer

That said, this is uploaded to Bionic/Cosmic unapproved again and waiting for SRU Team re-review.

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Please test proposed package

Hello Scott, or anyone else affected,

Accepted open-vm-tools into cosmic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/2:10.3.5-7~ubuntu0.18.10.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-cosmic to verification-done-cosmic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-cosmic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Changed in open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Cosmic):
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
tags: added: verification-needed verification-needed-cosmic
Revision history for this message
Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

Hello Scott, or anyone else affected,

Accepted open-vm-tools into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/2:10.3.5-7~ubuntu0.18.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Changed in open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Bionic):
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
tags: added: verification-needed-bionic
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Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer) wrote :

Pre update - the link can be broken by belonging to different packages with no hard dep.

ubuntu@node-2:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/vmware-user
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Oct 10 11:25 /usr/bin/vmware-user -> vmware-user-suid-wrapper
ubuntu@node-2:~$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/vmware-user-suid-wrapper /usr/bin/vmware-user
open-vm-tools-desktop: /usr/bin/vmware-user-suid-wrapper
open-vm-tools: /usr/bin/vmware-user

After the update the link is always good by belonging to the same package:
$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/vmware-user-suid-wrapper /usr/bin/vmware-user
open-vm-tools-desktop: /usr/bin/vmware-user-suid-wrapper
open-vm-tools-desktop: /usr/bin/vmware-user

Setting verified

tags: added: verification-done-bionic
removed: verification-needed-bionic
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Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer) wrote :

Ran the same on cosmic, which other than dates in the log does not differ at all.
Setting verified as well.

tags: added: verification-done verification-done-cosmic
removed: verification-needed verification-needed-cosmic
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :
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This bug was fixed in the package open-vm-tools - 2:10.3.5-7~ubuntu0.18.10.1

---------------
open-vm-tools (2:10.3.5-7~ubuntu0.18.10.1) cosmic; 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 address hidden>

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 Reco...

Read more...

Changed in open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Cosmic):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote : Update Released

The verification of the Stable Release Update for open-vm-tools has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :
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This bug was fixed in the package open-vm-tools - 2:10.3.5-7~ubuntu0.18.04.1

---------------
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 address hidden>

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 Reco...

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Changed in open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Bionic):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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