Public bug reported: Since the change in [1] open-vm-tools-service starts very (very) early. Not so much due to the Before=cloud-init-local.service But much more by DefaultDependencies=no
That can trigger an issue that looks like root@ubuntuguest:~# systemctl status -l 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; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: resources) As it is right now open-vm-tools can race with the other early start and then fail. In detail one can find a message like: open-vm-tools.service: Failed to run 'start' task: Read-only file system" This is due to privtaeTmp=yes which is also set needing a writable /var/tmp [2] To ensure this works PrivateTmp would have to be removed (not good) or some after dependencies added that make this work reliably. I added After=local-fs.target which made it work for me in 3/3 tests. I' like to have an ack by the cloud-init Team that this does not totally kill the originally intended Before=cloud-init-local.service I think it does not as local-fs can complete before cloud-init-local, then open-vm-tools can initialize and finally cloud-init-local can pick up the data. To summarize: # cloud-init-local # DefaultDependencies=no Wants=network-pre.target After=systemd-remount-fs.service Before=NetworkManager.service Before=network-pre.target Before=shutdown.target Before=sysinit.target Conflicts=shutdown.target RequiresMountsFor=/var/lib/cloud # open-vm-tools # DefaultDependencies=no Before=cloud-init-local.service Proposed is to add to the latter: After=local-fs.target [1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=859677 [2]: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/5610 ** Affects: cloud-init Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: open-vm-tools (Ubuntu) Importance: High Status: Triaged ** Also affects: cloud-init 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/1750780 Title: Race with local file systems can make open-vm-tools fail to start To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1750780/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
