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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>

 -- Bernd Zeimetz <email address hidden>  Mon, 04 Mar 2019 20:02:52 +0100

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