RHEL7: hung system due to frozen filesystems with Red Hat supplied vmtoolsd from open-vm-tools package
Issue
- System is hung due to frozen filesystems and vmtoolsd from open-vm-tools is stuck in the same fashion as VMware supplied vmtoolsd, for example:
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- seen on 3.10.0-229.11.1.el7
- open-vm-tools-desktop-9.4.0-6.el7.x86_64
- open-vm-tools-9.4.0-6.el7.x86_64
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