After discussing with smoser it seems we agree that we expect some potential issues. Eventually it comes down to almost "chaning-any-dependency-anywhere-in-systemd has issues" :-)
In this particular case we are concerned that vgauth.service might have issues as it has to start much earlier than usual. That is different to the "Fedora has the same" argument, as they don't have open-vm-tools.service not that early for cloud-init. Due to that "pulling vgauth.service" before "open-vm-tools.service" is a bigger change for Ubuntu one should be aware of. As I said in comment #5 I have combined the requested change in PPA [1] and it might come down to VMWare to verify that not only it fixes this bug here, but also has no unwanted side effects. Call for action: - please verify the proposed package in [1] as part of our agreement to verify new versions - while doing so please focus additionally on the services changed here open-vm-tools.service and vgauth.service to be correct - please also verify that it really fixes the issue you opened this bug for In addition I'll send a mail about that. [1]: https://launchpad.net/~ci-train-ppa-service/+archive/ubuntu/3530 -- 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
