Thank you for checking. The ppa was only meant for 16.04 and yes since we knew the issue was there it has the fix. Overall this confirms all I needed, lets make the change for Bionic before it releases and from thre make it part of the SRUs for Artful and Xenial.
** Changed in: open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Bionic) Status: Incomplete => In Progress -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1758428 Title: Subprocesses of StartProgramInGuest fail when creating temporary files To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1758428/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs