Package: open-vm-tools Version: 2:12.5.0-2 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Maintainer,
when updating a recently installed server, we noticed that open-vm-tools.service refused to start, reporting that the unit tmp.mount is masked. I tracked the error down to the "RequiresMountsFor=/tmp" line in the default unit file, which causes a hard requirement on that unit being usable. In our setup there is a physical /tmp configured in fstab, which conflicts with thedefault tmp.mount unit. I believe that changing the RequiresMountsFor to WantsMountsFor as in the supplied patch should solve the issue. It works in our setup, but I have not been able to test for any posible side-effects, such as potentially causing a regression on #900566. Thank you for your time, Erik --- /lib/systemd/system/open-vm-tools.service 2025-05-12 15:17:50.000000000 +0200 +++ /etc/systemd/system/open-vm-tools.service 2025-09-08 10:43:32.558735553 +0200 @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Before=cloud-init-local.service After=vgauth.service After=apparmor.service -RequiresMountsFor=/tmp +WantsMountsFor=/tmp After=systemd-remount-fs.service systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service systemd-modules-load.service [Service] -- System Information: Debian Release: 13.1 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.12.41+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU thread; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages open-vm-tools depends on: ii init-system-helpers 1.69~deb13u1 ii iproute2 6.15.0-1 ii libc6 2.41-12 ii libdrm2 2.4.124-2 ii libfuse3-4 3.17.2-3 ii libgcc-s1 14.2.0-19 ii libglib2.0-0t64 2.84.4-3~deb13u1 ii libmspack0t64 0.11-1.1+b1 ii libssl3t64 3.5.1-1 ii libtirpc3t64 1.3.6+ds-1 ii libudev1 257.8-1~deb13u1 ii libxml2 2.12.7+dfsg+really2.9.14-2.1+deb13u1 ii libxmlsec1t64 1.2.41-1+b1 ii libxmlsec1t64-openssl 1.2.41-1+b1 ii lsb-release 12.1-1 ii pciutils 1:3.13.0-2 Versions of packages open-vm-tools recommends: ii ethtool 1:6.14.2-1 ii fuse3 3.17.2-3 ii zerofree 1.1.1-1+b1 Versions of packages open-vm-tools suggests: pn cloud-init <none> pn open-vm-tools-containerinfo <none> pn open-vm-tools-desktop <none> pn open-vm-tools-salt-minion <none> -- no debconf information
