open-vm-tools (vmtoolsd) segfaults when hypervisor sents shutdown request
package open-vm-tools-10.0.0_p3000743-r0
When issuing a “guest OS shutdown” the vmtoolsd process segfaults:
vmtoolsd[2596]: segfault at 0 ip 00006cba1552a9a1 sp 00007c03b44dbfe0
error 4 in libvmtools.so.0.0.0[6cba154f7000+282000]
vmtoolsd[2928]: segfault at 0 ip 000070fa2e2899a1 sp 000075e8d672e6d0
error 4 in libvmtools.so.0.0.0[70fa2e256000+282000]
Steps to replicate:
- Install Alpine to disk (‘lvmsys’ install).
- Install open-vm-tools (apk add open-vm-tools).
- Add open-vm-tools as boot server (rc-update add open-vm-tools boot).
- Reboot or start open-vm-tools service (rc-service open-vm-tools start).
- From VMware client, issue a “Shut Down Guest”.
(from redmine: issue id 5105, created on 2016-02-11, closed on 2019-01-10)
- Uploads:
- 0013-fix-System_Reboot-binary.patch Fix System_Reboot() for alpine linux