Comment 14 for bug 1790145

The following log shows the issue before the fix, an upgrade to the version in proposed and then the fixed situation after the fix.

We checked the same code generally from the identical PPA we built before.

ubuntu@node-1:~$ for i in /sys/block/sd*/device/timeout; do echo $i; cat $i; done
/sys/block/sda/device/timeout
30
/sys/block/sdb/device/timeout
30
/sys/block/sdc/device/timeout
30
/sys/block/sdd/device/timeout
30
ubuntu@node-1:~$ sudo apt install open-vm-tools
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  open-vm-tools-desktop
The following packages will be upgraded:
  open-vm-tools
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 58 not upgraded.
Need to get 542 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-proposed/main amd64 open-vm-tools amd64 2:10.3.0-0ubuntu1~18.04.2 [542 kB]
Fetched 542 kB in 1s (524 kB/s)
(Reading database ... 102200 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../open-vm-tools_2%3a10.3.0-0ubuntu1~18.04.2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking open-vm-tools (2:10.3.0-0ubuntu1~18.04.2) over (2:10.3.0-0ubuntu1~18.04.1) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-20) ...
Setting up open-vm-tools (2:10.3.0-0ubuntu1~18.04.2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.28-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (237-3ubuntu10.3) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2) ...
ubuntu@node-1:~$ sudo reboot
Connection to 10.245.205.25 closed by remote host.
Connection to 10.245.205.25 closed.
[✗=255]─[paelzer@lap:~]──[42736]──[18:05 Do Sep 20]──
$ ssh ubuntu@10.245.205.25
Welcome to Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.15.0-34-generic x86_64)

 * Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com
 * Management: https://landscape.canonical.com
 * Support: https://ubuntu.com/advantage

  System information as of Thu Sep 20 16:41:11 UTC 2018

  System load: 0.02 Processes: 102
  Usage of /: 20.9% of 29.40GB Users logged in: 0
  Memory usage: 1% IP address for ens160: 10.245.205.25
  Swap usage: 0%

  Get cloud support with Ubuntu Advantage Cloud Guest:
    http://www.ubuntu.com/business/services/cloud

 * Canonical Livepatch is available for installation.
   - Reduce system reboots and improve kernel security. Activate at:
     https://ubuntu.com/livepatch

58 packages can be updated.
16 updates are security updates.

Last login: Thu Sep 20 16:34:38 2018 from 10.172.196.172
ubuntu@node-1:~$ for i in /sys/block/sd*/device/timeout; do echo $i; cat $i; done
/sys/block/sda/device/timeout
180
/sys/block/sdb/device/timeout
180
/sys/block/sdc/device/timeout
180
/sys/block/sdd/device/timeout
180

Overall: verified