vmtoolsd does not start automatically after reboot with systemd

[Oliver Kurth]

In Ubuntu 15.04 Beta1, when open-vm-tools is installed, it will not start automatically after a reboot. It runs after the commanad (as root):
systemctl start open-vm-tools
With the command
systemctl enable open-vm-tools
it will start after rebooting.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: open-vm-tools 2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.18.0-13.14-generic 3.18.5
Uname: Linux 3.18.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.16.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Mon Mar 9 18:55:44 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-03-05 (4 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Alpha amd64 (20150224)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: open-vm-tools
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
modified.conffile..etc.vmware.tools.tools.conf:

mtime.conffile..etc.vmware.tools.tools.conf: 2015-03-09T08:59:28.900000

[Bo Dang (bdang)]

Thanks Oliver and added more related colleagues also.

Best Regards,
Bo

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Indeed, this was fixed in Debian a while ago. The package doesn't use dh-systemd and "--with systemd", that should be sufficient. We are a dozen versions behind, this package is in need of some merging. Subscribing the last few uploaders (Robert, Ben, Robie), could you please look into this?

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Note that later Debian versions like https://tracker.debian.org/news/668190 also have security fixes, and there's a whole lot of other bug fixes.

[Ben Howard (utlemming)]

I'm taking a look at importing the latest from Debian.

[Ben Howard (utlemming)]

Synced from Debian. I've dropped the Ubuntu customizations so that we are a whole lot closer to Debian, including support for vmhgfs.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package open-vm-tools - 2:9.4.6-1770165-8ubuntu1

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open-vm-tools (2:9.4.6-1770165-8ubuntu1) vivid; urgency=medium

  * Sync from Debian (LP: #1430109)
    - Added systemd support.
    - Applied patches from opensuse to support kernels between 3.16 and 3.19.
    - re-enabled the vmhgfs dkms modules
 -- Ben Howard <email address hidden> Tue, 17 Mar 2015 09:09:26 -0600