Installed another Xenial and Bionic in vmware to take a deper look.
- Xenial (with backported open-vm-tools): affected
- Bionic (with the interim fix reverted): no hit in several retries,
explanation below
Systemd fixed it (via our assumed implicit dependency).
In Bionic the PrivateTmp gives it a dependency on systemd-tmpfile-setup.service
(seen in systemd analyze, there might be more but not on crit path).
This is configured by default to include /var/tmp in
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf.
In regard to your thoughts about later on changing cloud-init ordering
that won't help you, as the dependency is there (implicit or explicit
doesn't matter).
For the xenial case where I reliably hit the issue instead of stracing I cut
things short.
A service with the following exposes exactly the same error:
[Unit]
Description=foo
DefaultDependencies=no
[Service]
PrivateTmp=yes
ExecStart=/bin/true
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
So back on Xenial it is privateTmp + too early that breaks it.
Xenial vs Bionic critical-chain according to "systemd-analyze critical-
chain open.vm-tools.service"
Xenial with fix:
open-vm-tools.service @3.482s
└─local-fs.target @3.460s
└─local-fs-pre.target @3.460s
└─systemd-remount-fs.service @3.442s +9ms
└─system.slice @220ms
└─-.slice @204m
Xenial without fix:
└─run-vmblock\x2dfuse.mount @6.076s +390ms
└─sys-fs-fuse-connections.mount @5.510s +375ms
└─systemd-modules-load.service @1.996s +75ms
└─system.slice @1.984s
└─-.slice @1.966s
Bionic
open-vm-tools.service @3.566s
└─systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service @3.421s +100ms
└─systemd-journal-flush.service @3.054s +342ms
└─systemd-journald.service @825ms +2.219s
└─syslog.socket @808ms
└─system.slice @621ms
└─-.slice @613ms
To Summarize, we can:
- revert the fix for Bionic (or later) - just make it a sync when convenient
down the road, it doesn't hurt for now as it is (almost) the same as the
implicit dependency)
- add a xenials systemd bug task (probably too complex to fix as -upstream)
- until said systemd bug is fixed a backport of open-vm-tools needs this fix
** Also affects: systemd (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Xenial)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: systemd (Ubuntu Xenial)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Xenial)
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Fix Released
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