tag 888955 moreinfo thanks Hi,
> here all systems on vSphere 6.0/6.5 fail to start open-vm-tools.service > on boot. > The only thing I see is: > > # systemctl status open-vm-tools.service > ● open-vm-tools.service - Service for virtual machines hosted on VMware > Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/open-vm-tools.service; enabled) > Active: failed (Result: resources) > Docs: http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/about.php please provide some more information - add [logging] log = true vmtoolsd.level = debug vmtoolsd.handler = file to /etc/vmware-tools/tools.conf and restart the service. Then check /var/log/vmware-vmtoolsd.log. The other vmware logs might be interesting, too. Also please give power-cycling the VM a try. If that gives some clue, we can forward it to the upstream issues on github. If you have a support contract with vmware, opening a case might speed up things. Best regards, Bernd -- 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
