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 <bi...@debian.org>: > > Version: 238-1 > > On Sat, 10 Mar 2018 09:29:46 +0100 Bernd Zeimetz <be...@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? > > -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F
