http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544400 User koenig@linux.de added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544400#c2 --- Comment #2 from Harald Koenig <koenig@linux.de> 2009-10-09 12:02:57 MDT --- (In reply to comment #1)

this usually happens when a daemon( vmtoolsd) leaves file descriptors open (like stdin/stdout/stderr) instead of correctly daemonizing.

it happend again when updating to open-vm-tools-2009.07.22-1.23. vmtoolsd is still running, so I can provide some more info. vmtoolsd still has a PGID and is associated with pts/3 : # ps -jlp 29891 14783 F S UID PID PPID PGID SID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN TTY TIME CMD 4 S 0 14783 3403 14783 3346 0 80 0 - 14957 pipe_w pts/3 0:31 zypper dup -l 4 S 0 29891 1 14783 3346 0 80 0 - 6113 poll_s pts/3 0:02 /usr/bin/vmtoolsd but threre is no open file descriptor other than lots of pipes: # ll /proc/29891/fd total 0 lr-x------ 1 root root 64 2009-10-09 19:52 0 -> /dev/null l-wx------ 1 root root 64 2009-10-09 19:52 1 -> /dev/null l-wx------ 1 root root 64 2009-10-09 19:52 10 -> pipe:[595813] lr-x------ 1 root root 64 2009-10-09 19:52 11 -> pipe:[595814] l-wx------ 1 root root 64 2009-10-09 19:52 12 -> pipe:[595814] lr-x------ 1 root root 64 2009-10-09 19:52 13 -> pipe:[595815] l-wx------ 1 root root 64 2009-10-09 19:52 14 -> pipe:[595815] l-wx------ 1 root root 64 2009-10-09 19:52 2 -> pipe:[595258] lr-x------ 1 root root 64 2009-10-09 19:52 3 -> pipe:[595810] l-wx------ 1 root root 64 2009-10-09 19:52 4 -> pipe:[595810] lr-x------ 1 root root 64 2009-10-09 19:52 5 -> pipe:[595811] l-wx------ 1 root root 64 2009-10-09 19:52 6 -> pipe:[595811] lr-x------ 1 root root 64 2009-10-09 19:52 7 -> pipe:[595812] l-wx------ 1 root root 64 2009-10-09 19:52 8 -> pipe:[595812] lr-x------ 1 root root 64 2009-10-09 19:52 9 -> pipe:[595813] strace shows: 20:01:35.730217 poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=13, events=POLLIN}, {fd=13, events=POLLIN}, {fd=13, events=POLLIN}, {fd=13, events=POLLIN}, {fd=13, events=POLLIN}], 6, 99) = 0 (Timeout) 20:01:35.834029 gettimeofday({1255111295, 834060}, NULL) = 0 20:01:35.834113 gettimeofday({1255111295, 834130}, NULL) = 0 20:01:35.834167 gettimeofday({1255111295, 834184}, NULL) = 0 20:01:35.834218 poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=13, events=POLLIN}, {fd=13, events=POLLIN}, {fd=13, events=POLLIN}, {fd=13, events=POLLIN}, {fd=13, events=POLLIN}], 6, 99) = 0 (Timeout) 20:01:35.934170 gettimeofday({1255111295, 934201}, NULL) = 0 20:01:35.934256 gettimeofday({1255111295, 934273}, NULL) = 0 20:01:35.934310 gettimeofday({1255111295, 934327}, NULL) = 0 20:01:35.934362 poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=13, events=POLLIN}, {fd=13, events=POLLIN}, {fd=13, events=POLLIN}, {fd=13, events=POLLIN}, {fd=13, events=POLLIN}], 6, 100) = 0 (Timeout) 20:01:36.038044 gettimeofday({1255111296, 38073}, NULL) = 0 20:01:36.038128 gettimeofday({1255111296, 38145}, NULL) = 0 20:01:36.038182 gettimeofday({1255111296, 38199}, NULL) = 0 -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544400 User prusnak@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544400#c4 --- Comment #4 from Pavol Rusnak <prusnak@novell.com> 2009-10-14 16:54:38 CEST --- Release number is in form X.Y where X is check-in number and Y is rebuild number. Change from 1.23 to 1.24 means that the package was rebuilt (because some of the dependencies changed), but there was no check-in (change). -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544400 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544400#c5 --- Comment #5 from Dominique Leuenberger <dominique.leuenberger@tmf-group.com> 2010-04-21 08:59:48 UTC --- This most likely happens because the user process (vmware-user) is having file descriptors open in /proc/fs/vmblock/*. This causes troubles unloading / reloading the vmblock module (thanks Dmitry @ vmware for pointing this one out). A test package with this in the vmtoolsd script is being built in home:dimstar:branches:Virtualization:VMware/open-vm-tools. An update *to* this version will still hang (as the vmtoolsd init script does not have the updated parameters yet on disk). Any subsequent updates should then work. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544400 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544400#c Dominique Leuenberger <dominique.leuenberger@tmf-group.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |koenig@linux.de -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544400 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544400#c8 Klaus Slott <k.slott@vink-slott.dk> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |k.slott@vink-slott.dk --- Comment #8 from Klaus Slott <k.slott@vink-slott.dk> 2010-05-31 12:51:30 UTC --- I'v just been hit by this problem today and is a little confused about the patch. I tried to update 2 virtual machines today and both updates stalled with a rpm in defunct state. (Described in detail here: http://forums.opensuse.org/get-help-here/install-boot-login/438469-yast-zypp... ) Before updating the 3.machine I thought that I would apply the patch by hand. As far as I can see, the patch sends a signal to /usr/bin/vmtools-user - but there is no such binary on my system. An no such process # ps ax | grep vmtools 1867 ? Sl 1:52 /usr/bin/vmtoolsd 1874 ? Ss 0:00 startpar -f -- vmtoolsd Am I right in assuming that the signal should go to /usr/bin/vmtoolsd ? -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.