Public bug reported: In Ubuntu 18.04, when the VM is booting with disconnected NICs after SRM (Site Recovery Manager) failover, the VGAuthService is initialized by vmtoold far later than deployPkg script execution + the hardcoded 100 seconds timeout for deployPkg POSIX processes.
This causes the SRM guest enrollment script to fail since it is not able to find running VGAuthService in its execution time duration. The issue is that vgauth starts much later than vmtoolsd. The systemd service should have a dependency on vmtoolsd. Adding this line: After=vgauth.service to the file /lib/systemd/system/open-vm-tools.service fixes the issue. This is also done in the package for Fedora (and hence RHEL and CentOS), see https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/open-vm- tools/blob/master/f/vmtoolsd.service . This is a critical issue for us. The issue probably exists in older Ubuntu releases as well. I will also file a bug with Debian. ** Affects: open-vm-tools (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1804287 Title: vgauth needs to start before vmtoolsd To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1804287/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
