Keyborad and mouse suddenly stopped responding on VMware remote console

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • When configuring networking settings with nmtui on VMware remote console, the keyboard and mouse suddenly stopped responding.
  • To recover, the system has to be rebooted.
  • The same issue does not happen when open nmtui within an ssh session.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • open-vm-tools
  • VMware vSphpere(8.0 update 2)

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