With the trick described in the test instructions: Prior to the update even when restarting the service: [2019-03-11T08:31:47.052Z] [ warning] [resolutionCommon] resolutionCheckForKMS: No system support for resolutionKMS.
Upgrade: sudo apt install open-vm-tools-desktop open-vm-tools Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Suggested packages: xdg-utils Recommended packages: xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse The following packages will be upgraded: open-vm-tools open-vm-tools-desktop 2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 39 not upgraded. Need to get 672 kB of archives. After this operation, 6144 B of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-proposed/universe amd64 open-vm-tools-desktop amd64 2:10.3.5-7~ubuntu0.18.04.1 [129 kB] Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-proposed/main amd64 open-vm-tools amd64 2:10.3.5-7~ubuntu0.18.04.1 [543 kB] Fetched 672 kB in 1s (482 kB/s) dpkg: considering deconfiguration of open-vm-tools-desktop, which would be broken by installation of open-vm-tools ... dpkg: yes, will deconfigure open-vm-tools-desktop (broken by open-vm-tools) (Reading database ... 116821 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../open-vm-tools_2%3a10.3.5-7~ubuntu0.18.04.1_amd64.deb ... De-configuring open-vm-tools-desktop (2:10.3.0-0ubuntu1~18.04.3) ... Unpacking open-vm-tools (2:10.3.5-7~ubuntu0.18.04.1) over (2:10.3.0-0ubuntu1~18.04.3) ... Preparing to unpack .../open-vm-tools-desktop_2%3a10.3.5-7~ubuntu0.18.04.1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking open-vm-tools-desktop (2:10.3.5-7~ubuntu0.18.04.1) over (2:10.3.0-0ubuntu1~18.04.3) ... Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-20) ... Setting up open-vm-tools (2:10.3.5-7~ubuntu0.18.04.1) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ... Setting up open-vm-tools-desktop (2:10.3.5-7~ubuntu0.18.04.1) ... Processing triggers for systemd (237-3ubuntu10.13) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1) ... service right after upgrade install has the new drop in snippet: $ systemctl cat open-vm-tools # /lib/systemd/system/open-vm-tools.service [Unit] Description=Service for virtual machines hosted on VMware Documentation=http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/about.php ConditionVirtualization=vmware DefaultDependencies=no Before=cloud-init-local.service After=vgauth.service After=apparmor.service RequiresMountsFor=/tmp After=systemd-remount-fs.service systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service [Service] ExecStart=/usr/bin/vmtoolsd TimeoutStopSec=5 [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target # /lib/systemd/system/open-vm-tools.service.d/desktop.conf [Service] ExecStartPre=-/sbin/modprobe vmwgfx The log now is happy for the KMS plugin [2019-03-11T08:37:35.074Z] [ message] [resolutionCommon] resolutionCheckForKMS: dlopen succeeded. [2019-03-11T08:37:35.076Z] [ message] [resolutionCommon] resolutionCheckForKMS: System support available for resolutionKMS. Setting verified ** Tags removed: verification-needed-bionic ** Tags added: verification-done-bionic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1818473 Title: open-vm-tools-desktop: resolutionKMS plugins sometimes fails to load at boot To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/open-vm-tools/+bug/1818473/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs