open-vm-tools causes freeze on logout

billydv

I have been trying to troubleshoot this for a while now but I cannot find the solution. I have definitely pinpointed the problem but do not know how to fix this. I have both Linux Gentoo 64 and Windows 8.1 hosts for vmware workstation (latest) and also Gentoo 64 guests running on both hosts. About 10 months ago or so I started seeing that my Gentoo guests would freeze doing either logout, shutdown or reboot from any desktop Gnome or kde. If I switch to tty2, login and run the command reboot or shutdown -h now the guest vm does so immediately with no issue. All hosts and guests are ~arch and running systemd. If I uninstall open-vm-tools the problem immediately goes away but of course desktop does not auto resize anymore. I have also tried the proprietary vmware tools and the freezes are exactly the same.

Anyone experiencing this or have any clues?
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Billy DeVincentis

billydv · Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 11:03 pm Post subject:

same on arch linux

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1468592#p1468592

filing a bug
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billydv · Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2014 2:31 am Post subject:

There is some incompatibility with all other versions of xorg-server other than 1.15.2, downgrading to 1.15.2 solves the problem
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