vmsvc Send error for socket 7: 32[Broken pipe] (2209399388)
Issue
Following message was logged to /var/log/messages
while running sosreport. Is this message harmful? If yes, please tell me how it is harmful and the solution.
Sep 12 12:08:23 host vmsvc[1892]: [ warning] [vmsvc] SimpleSock: Send error for socket 7: 32[Broken pipe]
PID:1892 is process of /usr/bin/vmtoolsd:
2022-09-29 22:17:36 PID PPID USER TTY PR NI nMaj VIRT RES SHR nDRT WCHAN Flags S %CPU %MEM TIME P COMMAND
: (snip)
2022-09-29 22:17:36 1892 1 root ? 20 0 45 356600 116128 5032 0 poll_sche+ 4.4.21.. S 0.0 0.2 382:48 6 /usr/bin/vmtoolsd
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.2
- VMware Guest
- open-vm-tools-9.10.2-4.el7.x86_64
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