Hung system, vmtoolsd unable to complete freezing filesystems due to scanning NFS / autofs filesystems in mtab
Issue
- vmtoolsd process stuck while freezing filesystems, and the backtrace indicates it is trying to open an automount path or an NFS file
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (VMware guest)
- VMware provided VMware Tools
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (VMware guest)
- seen on open-vm-tools-9.4.0-6.el7
- NFS filesystems (either NFS3 or NFS4)
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