Bug#686200: open-vm-tools: fails to upgrade do failing to stop the old daemon

2013-03-31 Thread Daniel Baumann
severity 686200 minor retitle 686200 doesn't need the additional sleep 1 in init anymore thanks Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > you've added the one second sleep "fix" to the init script again i have not added it, i kept it, and included a non-intrusive version of the patch you did in the NMU (see 2:9.2.

Bug#686200: open-vm-tools: fails to upgrade do failing to stop the old daemon

2013-03-11 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hi, as you've tagged this bug moreinfo: In unstable you've added the one second sleep "fix" to the init script again instead of using the return values of start-stop-daemon properly. As discussed on #683299 a sleep 1 does not make sense at all, either it is properly implemented and works as expec

Bug#686200: open-vm-tools: fails to upgrade do failing to stop the old daemon

2012-08-29 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Severity: serious Package: open-vm-tools Hi, upgrading open-vm-tools fails reproducibly on most machines here. This is due to the init script not waiting until the old daemon was stopped, which might take some time, and the new daemon failing to start then. I've rewritten the init script complete